From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 21 06:59:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA13679 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 06:59:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA13602 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 06:59:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0zL62u-0000w5-00; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:30:28 +0200 Message-ID: <19980921153028.A3570@cityip.co.za> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:30:28 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_C=2E_Sm=F8rgrav_?= Cc: FreeBSD-chat Subject: Re: Network Computers Mail-Followup-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_C=2E_Sm=F8rgrav_?= , FreeBSD-chat References: <199809210821.BAA21618@word.smith.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3Cxzpn27tobrd=2Efsf=40urdarbrunni=2Eifi=2Euio=2Eno=3E=3B?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_from_Dag-Erling_C=2E_Sm=F8rgrav__on_Mon=2C_Sep_21=2C_199?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?8_at_03:07:02PM_+0200?= X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id GAA13655 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 21 Sep 1998 at 15:07 SAT, Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav wrote: > > 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. I agree. However, as I understand it, the whole NC concept relies heavily on the Java / executable bytecode concept. So the difference might possibly be summarised by a table such as this: | Program storage | Program execution ----------------+---------------------+------------------ (X) Terminal | Server | Server Client/Server | Client | Client NC | Server | Client (Note that I in no way claim expertise; to me, NCs are things about which I read in trade rags.) -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message