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SUD

  1. noun Acronym for 'Single-User Dungeon'; a (hypothetical) single-player conversion of MUD. There really was such a game once, written and sold in about 1987 by Jon Stuart (with help from Paul McCraken and others) under licence from MUSE. However, it wasn't called SUD officially because in theory it could take a second player by a direct connection through a serial port, so it was therefore not actually 'single-user'. This version (of MUD1) laboured under the name 'MicroMUD'.
  2. noun A single-player MUD (sense 6), ie. a SUA.

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