Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:10:04 +0200 From: Juergen Nickelsen <ni@tellique.de> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Network Computers Message-ID: <36066C4C.830B42CD@tellique.de> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809210539330.4421-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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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 <ni@tellique.de> 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
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