From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 21 08:09:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24707 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:09:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picasso.tellique.de (picasso.tellique.de [62.144.106.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA24657 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:09:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ni@tellique.de) Received: from tellique.de (nolde.tellique.de [62.144.106.52]) by picasso.tellique.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22140; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:08:27 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <36066C4C.830B42CD@tellique.de> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:10:04 +0200 From: Juergen Nickelsen Organization: Tellique Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jason C. Wells" CC: FreeBSD-chat Subject: Re: Network Computers References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jason C. Wells wrote: > How does a network computer differ from an X terminal? Is NC just a > catch phrase for X terminal? As it has been written before, it depends on who you ask. For instance, I had to do with NCD and Tektronix some time ago. Both have been marketing things as "NCs" that had been X terminals before. Another part of their NC concept is, though, that besides vanilla X applications these (and other X terminals) can also be used to run MS Windows-based applications with an appropriate application server, which is running under the respective vendor's or some other variant of a multi-user Windows NT and runs NT sessions as X11 clients. On the other hand, both vendors seem to have abandoned the term NC now and thrown themselves on "Thin Client", which again is nothing *really* well-defined. Often the ability to runs Java bytecode on a local VM is associated with the term "NC", something that some X terminals can do as well. In general, both terms "NC" and "Thin Client" (and some more) are applied to machines ranging from diskless-workstation-type things to plain X terminals. Different people mean different things. -- Juergen Nickelsen Tellique Kommunikationstechnik GmbH Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, 13355 Berlin, Germany Tel. +49 30 46307-552 / Fax +49 30 46307-579 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message