Difference between a sim, a simulator and a region.

Lets see what everybody thinks about it.
Please add your definitions.

There's not really much room for opinion with this poll.
Sim is an abreviation of simulator, and a sim handles 65,536 m2 which is one entire region (as defined on the land fees page), so there's really only one correct answer.

There are several partially correct answers, though..

In short....sim=simulator=region=65,536 m ²



ONLY ANSWER.

Ya there is nothing to poll here. They are all the same thing.

'Sim' is short form for simulator.
A region is the same thing as a simulator.

Therefore: Sim = Simulator = Region.


Just to add:

A region always belongs to an estate.
An estate can have one or more regions.
All regions in an estate must have the same owner.
The largest estate in SL is 'Mainland' and has thousands of regions and is owned by LL.

Of the choices, the first four are correct.

Hehehe, from the beginning I guessed that there was a difference between a region and a simulator (why 2 names for a same thing !?), but I thought a sim was a simulator, until I came across the glossary of the official wiki, which says :



(This makes sense, I believe it was written by an insider if not a Linden.)

In brief, a sim is a computer, a simulator is a software and a region is the (land & primitives) data.

That's just machine names. They could have had jelly1234.lindenlab.com, and most of us would not call the servers jellies.

In general usage, sim and region are completely interchangeable. People talk of buying sims (regions), sim performance (a measure of the performance of that simulator) etc.
LL just needed some name to use when they started cramming 4 regions onto a server. I have no idea why the word "server" wouldn't suffice though

Considering what each are, it's a complete nonsense to use one for another.

Now up to everyone...

But they are not interchangeable to the PROGRAMMERS. Note that sim is the process, region is the DATA that the sim processes. So sim 1234 could be region "Papa" today and "Milyang" after the next reboot.

Programmers need very clear distinctions in these matters, even if the rest of us don't know or care what the difference is.

Max

I think it used to be one 'region' per 'simulator', so they were, back then, referred to as 'sims' for short. Not to be confused with a game with a similar name.

Now that there are 4 regions per simulator, the term 'sim' isn't as clear... and I believe LL started referring to them as 'regions' more consistently around the time they started having more than one per server.



At least that's my take on the differences.

sim < simulator < = region - X45 * 4 = pie


... i think regions have religions involved.

Now that each terms have been defined, not using them makes things confusing.
Simulator is the process.
There has always been one region per simulator but not always one region/simulator per sim.

Having assigned sim to the server is problematic because we're always going to use sim as short for simulator.
And, it doesn't make sense to name a server a sim because unlike a process and data, it isn't specific to SL.

I would suggest that we name a process a simulator or a sim, a server a server, and a region a region.

Calling a region a sim(ulator) is like saying "come see my PHP installation" instead of "come see my website".

A li is an ancient Chinese unit of measurement, roughly equal to 512 metres. To walk around a region would take two li. So you have to subtract one li from a sim to get religion.