From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 21 01:16:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA24684 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 01:16:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles236.castles.com [208.214.165.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA24665 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 01:16:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA21618; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 01:21:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809210821.BAA21618@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jason C. Wells" cc: FreeBSD-chat Subject: Re: Network Computers In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Sep 1998 05:42:58 -0000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 01:21:18 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > How does a network computer differ from an X terminal? Is NC just a catch > phrase for X terminal? An X terminal is a local display for the X Window System. NC is a marketting term which is generally applied to "thin fat clients", ie. a client system with the ability to offload some amount of the application processing from the server to the NC. The amount of offloading depends on whose NC definition you buy. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message