WorldsAway Development Hardware
Development Hardware
This article aims to detail all of the known WorldsAway development servers and workstations. This list may be incomplete, so if you have any information regarding these, please get in touch.
| Machine Name | Machine Type | Machine Purpose | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| altair | This may have been the workstation of Jean-Luc Vaillant | ||
| akasha | This seems to have been a staging area for new
client and server builds of the WorldsAway software. |
John Onusko's workstation. | |
| a-tuin | The main production server that hosted the dreamscape,
hallway/hotel and pride. |
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| eridu | Possibly Chris Parry/laotzu's workstation. | ||
| excelsior | Not sure if this was for WorldsAway,
or an internal Fujitsu Software Corporation server. |
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| goblin | A pager email gateway. | ||
| golf | Sun SPARCStation | Doug Marshall's workstation. Used for developing the "IVAN" world
management tool. "IVAN" stands for "Interverse Admin Network". | |
| ishtar | Sun SPARCcenter 2000 | email, home directories, file storage, etc | Put into production usage on 30th July 1996. |
| ivanova | Sun SPARCStation 20 | ||
| kirk | A server used by the QA team for testing. | Usually used for QA testing, it was also used as a backup machine
if a-tuin was down for more than three hours. This was a red-line option to be considered in case of catastrophic hardware failure on a-tuin, not for 'routine' machine lock-ups. | |
| kosh | Sun SPARCStation 20 | Possibly David Petersons workstation. | |
| loki | Replaced by ishtar in July 1996 to perform tasks such
as nameservice, mail transport, backups, network management etc. | ||
| morpheus | A world building machine that went into production in mid 1997. | ||
| mundo | |||
| mugwump | Possibly David Eves workstation. | ||
| snoopy | |||
| tao | Possibly Norman Morses's workstation. | ||
| terra | |||
| vishnu | A production server that later became a billing server
in mid 1997. |
akasha
Akasha was John Onusko's workstation. John was the person who wrote a lot of the server side code for WorldsAway. Akasha was also used to host different client and server builds, as well as some server backups in the earlier days. This will be expanded upon in a future article update.
Configuration
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Purpose
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a-tuin
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Configuration
- 4 processors and room for further expansion (as of October 1996)
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Kirk
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Configuration
- 2 processors which was the max capacity of the system (as of October 1996)
- 32GB RAID configuration
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In January 1997, there were three QA WorldsAway servers in place on Kirk.
- test - For QA test automation and performance analysis only - port 10060
- qaone - For QA (QA only) - port 10070
- qatwo - For development and production scripting - port 10080
Kosh
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