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I bet Khaled doesn't do deadlines so he doesn't get stressed about the possibility of not reaching it in time.

I would say that could be a reason why. I hate commitments so I can understand the reasoning. Better to have a rep for living casually than making promises that one can't keep.

It could be that...but you gotta ask yourself this...rather than rushing to get an update on a mIRC version and possibly facing many bugs in the process and or any errors that need to be checked...Khaled probably takes his time because of the fact that he does have a life outside of mIRC (personally if it were me being rushed to make something happen and not do anything else until it was finished I would probably go insane...but thats just me).

The more time that is taken, the better the odds at getting a better version. Kinda like having quality rather than quantity in features. But i agree that if there was a deadline and you didn't make it, then people would be unhappy. To keep people happy is probably another priority thats why if there is no deadline there is no pressure...(Gosh I hope I'm right about this...)

I just hope the size of mIRC doesn't get too big.

I don't think mIRC is too big right now...but that may be just me.

I agree. mIRC itself isn't very big at all - it's all the scripts, addons etc that people choose to add to it that takes up the space. And that 's the beauty of it - you can have it as plain old vanilla mIRC, or enhance it to your heart's content.

I prefer the plain jane version...Its simple and works well enough...I agree thats the best part about mIRC...doesn't take alot to keep us occupied LOL.

I remember the good old days where it was nearly a meg big. Now, it's nearly 2 meg big.

Believe it or not i finally got my ass off of comic chat almost 2 years ago LOL. (I was away from IRC for a few years) But I do remember a friend of mine having mIRC when it first came out and I compare it to when I got back into chatting and I did noticed a really big difference...

Software doublnig in size is nothing. I assume you're talking about the actual installation since the installer itself is only a little over 1mb. Going on the assumption that the installer is always a little more than half the size of the installation the last version to have a 1mb installation was mIRC 4.6, 6½ years ago. Let's see how things have changed since then:

• mIRC: 1MB -> 2MB (2x)
• Writeable media: 1.44MB -> 650MB (451x)
• Net connections: 28Kb -> 512Kb (18x)
• Hard drives: 2GB -> 80GB (40x)
• RAM: 16MB -> 256MB (16x)
• Processor: 133MHz -> 2.4GHz (18x)

I couldn't find any proper figures on software size in late 96 and now. But just think that software then used to be spanned across floppy discs or take up a fraction of a CD, and now software fills a CD or is spanned across several and it's clear to see that pretty much all computer programs have grown far more than mIRC has size-wise.

So yes, mIRC has doubled in size, but everything around it has grown a hell of a lot faster - relatively speaking you could say that mIRC has actually shrunk over the years.

I'd still use mIRC even if it reached 10MB. it probably will never get that big though.