In the Free market, which is what the rest of the world gets shoved down its throat from the USA, the demand for the 8-track would be satisified... but someone wants to make money by shoving the latest gizmo down our throat.

"A pretty paltry reason to not use the best available software"
My 1G P3 512Mb machine runs it like a dog... and chews bandwidth...

The main hassle with the Mudchat for me seems to be when the link is so clogged (probably with spam/virus crap) that the app keeps timing out - an effective throughput of 100 bytes/sec bandwidth due to channel throttling is also a hassle...

"Cause it seems like what works on everything, only barely works at all"
It's better for it to work properly on all, than only on just a few - that's why we musos all tune our instruments to the same pitch when we play together...

Robin