The Butterfly Grid.
May 9, 2002 1:34 PM Subscribe
The Butterfly Grid. A gaming platform using open-source software to connect far-flung computers and millions of players, bypassing the Internet. (More from Reuters.)
Ah.
There's been some scuttlebutt connecting this to Sony's plans for the PS3. Way speculative, though.
...wishing I was going to this year's E3...
posted by NortonDC at 2:16 PM on May 9, 2002
There's been some scuttlebutt connecting this to Sony's plans for the PS3. Way speculative, though.
...wishing I was going to this year's E3...
posted by NortonDC at 2:16 PM on May 9, 2002
It doesn't bypass the Internet, and it doesn't bypass Internet traffic. What it does bypass is the bottleneck of a single centrally-located server for all online users.
posted by anser at 7:59 PM on May 9, 2002
posted by anser at 7:59 PM on May 9, 2002
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