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 # Socket Chat
 
-Socket Chat is a simple 2-way chat program, essentially a bi-directional echo server/client. It is remarkably
-non-robust, as its sole purpose is to demonstrate the use of Java sockets.
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+Socket Chat is a simple multiway chat program. Each chatter must wait their
+turn: the chat is sequenced in order of connecting to the host.
+It is remarkably non-robust, as its sole purpose is to demonstrate the use of
+multiple Java sockets without threading.