Distributed Systems

If MUDs and Multimedia are combined in applications, and things like sound and graphics are added to MUDs, preparations should be taken to make sure that the real-time feature of MUDs will not be harmed. Distributed systems are a possible solution here.

[Picture of a distributed system]

However:

The slave-servers have be kept up-to-date with the master server at all times, unless special precautions were taken.
Slave-servers should remain consistant amongst eachother.
There should be some crash recovery.

These are all synchronizations problems.