From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 21 14:42:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14070 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:42:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13786 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:41:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul4.u.washington.edu (root@saul4.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.2]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id OAA51804 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:40:18 -0700 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul4.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id OAA17514 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 21:40:25 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" cc: FreeBSD-chat Subject: Re: Network Computers In-Reply-To: <199809211646.JAA11265@word.smith.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Congratulations, you've guessed the secret handshake and you get to >join The NC Club. I never realized I was delving into such a large subject. No wonder I couldn't look at NC vendor webistes and figure out what the heck an NC is. The break down goes like this: (?) Xterm: No horse power display. Diskless WS: Horspe power display with no disc. Workstation: Horsepowered display with disc. NC: Some variation of the above plus may included secret decoder ring for acronyms. :) Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message