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CU-SeeMe

by erkose on 4/14/19, 2:17 AM with 1 comments

• by userbinator on 4/14/19, 3:24 AM

  It's not HD by any means, but look at the hardware this ran on: A few MB of RAM and a few dozen MHz of CPU.

  Meanwhile, a certain "modern" text-only (no, emoticons don't count as video) chat client manages to take upwards of 1GB of RAM and lag severely on a barely-1-year-old quad-core i7...