Difference between revisions of "Glossary"
From Danton's Real Life Userguide
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*Real Life (RL): the real world, as opposed to the simulated reality of [[Second Life]] | *Real Life (RL): the real world, as opposed to the simulated reality of [[Second Life]] | ||
*Region: each computer runs a bit of the world, which is known as a region - the region name is shown in the top bar. | *Region: each computer runs a bit of the world, which is known as a region - the region name is shown in the top bar. | ||
| − | * | + | *Resident: this term refers to any user of Second Life, considered as a user of the system, rather than as simply a three-dimensional representation or [[Avatar]] |
| − | * | + | *Sim: the computer running a region is called a “sim”, short for “simulator”. Most servers on the grid are pretty powerful, so they usually run several “sims” at the same time. There currently are about three thousand sims overall. |
*[[World]]: | *[[World]]: | ||
[[Category:Possibly relevant]] | [[Category:Possibly relevant]] | ||
