Medical Use
The Discworld mudlib was used in a medical computing experiment into the wearable data collection devices, in which a small MUD was created. The paper referred to several features of the mudlib, such as the program's use of coordinates to describe room locations, its broadcaster (a mechanism for sending messages to all players within a given area), and its complex parser.
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