From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 21 06:07:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA03405 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 06:07:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA03386 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 06:07:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from urdarbrunni.ifi.uio.no (2602@urdarbrunni.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.184]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id PAA07097; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:07:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by urdarbrunni.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:07:03 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: "Jason C. Wells" , FreeBSD-chat Subject: Re: Network Computers References: <199809210821.BAA21618@word.smith.net.au> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 21 Sep 1998 15:07:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Mon, 21 Sep 1998 01:21:18 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id GAA03391 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith 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