From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 21 12:54:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21480 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 12:54:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA21428 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 12:54:33 -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 JAA11265; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:46:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809211646.JAA11265@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) cc: Mike Smith , "Jason C. Wells" , FreeBSD-chat Subject: Re: Network Computers In-reply-to: Your message of "21 Sep 1998 15:07:02 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:46:46 -0700 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id MAA21457 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. Congratulations, you've guessed the secret handshake and you get to join The NC Club. Ideologically, NC's are "thinner" than diskless workstations, but this is often illusory (eg. JavaStation, NetPC, DNARD, etc.) -- \\ 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