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"Region" is a synonym for [[sim]], which is short for "simulator". The land in SL is hosted on a Linux server, two 65,536 m² (256x256m) regions per server (except for water regions which are 4 per server).
"Region" is a synonym for [[sim]], which is short for "simulator". The land in SL is hosted on a Linux server, two 65,536 m² (256x256m) regions per server (except for water regions which are 4 per server).
To learn more about the servers hosting SL, you can read the series of articles [http://blog.secondlife.com/?s=%22class+5%22] that have been posted to the SL blog.


See: [[Viewer coordinate frames]]
See: [[Viewer coordinate frames]]

Revision as of 13:11, 29 February 2008

"Region" is a synonym for sim, which is short for "simulator". The land in SL is hosted on a Linux server, two 65,536 m² (256x256m) regions per server (except for water regions which are 4 per server).

To learn more about the servers hosting SL, you can read the series of articles [1] that have been posted to the SL blog.

See: Viewer coordinate frames