Date: 21 Sep 1998 15:07:02 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Network Computers Message-ID: <xzpn27tobrd.fsf@urdarbrunni.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Mon, 21 Sep 1998 01:21:18 -0700" References: <199809210821.BAA21618@word.smith.net.au>
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Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> writes: > > 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. I'll rephrase Jason's question: how does an NC differ from a diskless workstation? To me, the entire NC concept sounds very much like reinventing some kind of wheel. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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