Puns on the " wet dirt " meaning of " mud " are endemic, as with, for example, the names of the ROM ( Rivers of MUD ), MUCK, MUSH, and CoffeeMUD codebases and the MUD Muddy Waters.

Merc spawned ROM ( Rivers of MUD ) and Envy, among others, and these in turn had their own spinoffs.

ROM ( Rivers of MUD ) is a MUD codebase derived from Merc, which is based on DikuMUD.

ru: ROM ( MUD )

ROM 807, the holotype of A. arctunguis ( now referred to A. sarcophagus ), had a 2. 5 by 3. 5 cm deep hole in the iliac blade, although the describer of the species did not recognize this as pathological.

In IBM PC compatible computers, the Basic Input / Output System ( BIOS ), also known as the system BIOS or ROM BIOS (), is a de facto standard defining a firmware interface.

Examples of non-volatile memory include read-only memory ( see ROM ), flash memory, most types of magnetic computer storage devices ( e. g. hard disks, floppy discs and magnetic tape ), optical discs, and early computer storage methods such as paper tape and punched cards.

Unlike the IBM PC, which used 8 kB of system ROM for power-on self-test ( POST ) and basic input / output system ( BIOS ), the Mac ROM was significantly larger ( 64 kB ) and held key OS code.

Multiplan was released first for computers running CP / M ; it was developed using a Microsoft proprietary p-code C compiler as part of a portability strategy that facilitated ports to systems such as MS-DOS, Xenix, Commodore 64, Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A, Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II, TRS-80 Model 100 ( on ROM ), Apple II, and Burroughs B-20 series.

* ROM: 2K ( TMS100 ), 1K ( 8021 )

* Cartridge ROM: 2K ( TMS 1100 ), 1K ( 8021 ) masked ( integrated into CPU ; each game's CPU was different )

Other licensed works that have been incorporated into the Marvel Universe include Godzilla, 2001: A Space Odyssey ( in the character of Machine Man ), ROM: Spaceknight, the Micronauts, and the Shogun Warriors.

The RTE client does not have a general purpose operating system-it usually lacks shells ( terminal windows ), is not designed to be patched ( updated online ), has minimal connectivity to external resources, and is often found in read-only media ( e. g. tamper-resistant ROM chips, CD-ROM, etc .).

The Spectrum reused a number of technologies used in the ZX81, such as some of the same ROM code ( some obsolete routines used for the ZX81 exist in the Spectrum ), and a similar ULA for hardware control.

The ZX Interface 1 add-on module included 8 kB of ROM, an RS-232 serial port, a proprietary LAN interface ( called ZX Net ), and an interface for the connection of up to eight ZX Microdrives – somewhat unreliable but speedy tape-loop cartridge storage devices released in July 1983.

The boot process was revolutionized by the introduction of integrated circuit read-only memory ( ROM ), with its many variants, including mask-programmed ROMs, programmable ROM ( PROM ), erasable ROM ( EPROM ), and flash memory.

Semiconductor ROM was already available at the time, and RAM-less systems ( i. e. with ROM only ) became popular in many industrial settings.

The MC6801 and MC6805 included with RAM, ROM and I / O on a single chip were popular in automotive applications.

The most popular home computer, the Commodore 64, was a notable exception, as its DOS was on ROM in the disk drive hardware, and the drive was addressed identically to printers, modems, and other external devices.

These were possible before emulation on PCs became popular ( or even adequate enough to play games ) because the games were on floppy disks, and were therefore easier to distribute to the users, in comparison to ROM cartridges used by video game consoles ( the MSX also used cartridges, but methods were discovered to copy the content onto floppy disks and other media too ).

Unlike most of the more popular VIC-20 games, it wasn't published as a ROM cartridge but rather on cassette tape.

* Consider ( MUD ), the ability to evaluate an opponent in MUDs

A MUD (; originally Multi-User Dungeon, with later variants Multi-User Dimension and Multi-User Domain ), is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, usually text-based.

He named the game MUD ( Multi-User Dungeon ), in tribute to the Dungeon variant of Zork, which Trubshaw had greatly enjoyed playing.

Trubshaw converted MUD to BCPL ( the predecessor of C ), before handing over development to Richard Bartle, a fellow student at Essex University, in 1980.

* Threshold ( online game ), a roleplaying enforced MUD

* Armageddon ( MUD ), a text-based online role-playing game

* Northern Lights ( online game ), a 1992 MUD, or text-based online role-playing game

* Rent ( MUD ), a game mechanic in some MUDs

* Northern Lights ( online game ), a MUD, or text-based online role-playing game

* Lost Souls ( online game ), a MUD, or text-based online role-playing game

* Immortal ( MUD ), an administrator or developer on a MUD

Because BatMUD does not require a special client program beyond a Telnet-capable computer ( although specialised MUD clients do exist ), it would be relatively easy for a player to multiplay effectively ( leading to experience / virtual currency inflation ) compared to other types of modern multiplayer online games.

It is next to the proposed 9th Street Station of the forthcoming LYNX Blue Line Extension and houses the Master of Business Administration ( MBA ), Master of Urban Design ( MUD ), and other graduate programs.

* Empire ( online game ), a MUD, or text-based online role-playing game

The most popular type of MMOG, and the sub-genre that pioneered the category, is the massively multiplayer online role playing game ( MMORPG ), which descended from university mainframe computer MUD and adventure games such as Rogue and Dungeon on the PDP-10.

The driver is largely open-source, with new releases usually made available quickly, while cut-down versions of the mudlib including most of the underlying features are occasionally released ( most recently in 2003 ), allowing the use of most of the basic object classes and tools of the MUD.

An urban arts scene is emerging in Hunts Point, with cultural institutions such as THE POINT Community Development Corporation, the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance ( BAAD ), and MUD / BONE STUDIO 889.

* Ragnarök ( MUD ), an online role-playing game

Some other occasionally used protocols are MSP ( MUD Sound Protocol ), a means of playing sounds in MUDs, and MCP ( MUD Client Protocol ), a framework for new client-server protocols.

For a few years this was a very popular form of MUD, hosted on a number of BBS systems, until widespread Internet access eliminated most BBSes.

The first popular MUD codebase was AberMUD, written in 1987 by Alan Cox, named after the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

During the early 1990s, LPMud was one of the most popular MUD codebases.

It did not take long until TinyMUD had emerged as the " most popular MUD on the internet ", and a subculture of furry fans emerged within the system.

AberMUD was the first popular open source MUD, named after the town in which it was written, Aberystwyth.

One of the oldest and most popular examples of the MUD genre, it was developed from 1992-1995 and released in February 1996.

Discworld MUD is a popular MUD, a text-based online role-playing game, set in the Discworld as depicted in the Discworld series of books by Terry Pratchett.

Extremely popular, its ideas influenced the MUD world heavily.

By the time it did, in the early 1990s, LPMud had become one of the most popular forms of MUD.

Some design elements in the mudlib have become popular in other MUD libraries-for example, the library's player commands that express emotions are named " soul commands ", and the way ANSI colour is encoded ( e. g. ) has been named " Pinkfish colour " after David Bennett, the main author of the library, who is widely known in the MUD community by his alias of Pinkfish.

Moria, Dry Gulch ( a western-style variation ), and Bugs-n-Drugs ( a medical variation ) — these all presaged MUDs ( Multi-User Domain ) and MOOs ( MUD, Object Oriented ) as well as popular first-person shooters like Doom and Quake and MMORPGs ( Massively multiplayer online role-playing game ) like Everquest and World of Warcraft.