Comment on Chromebook : 4th time trying to do "everything on the web"Comments−dpapathanasiou15yThis is the fifth attempt, if you count Oracle's Network Computer from the late 1990s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer−bad_user15yThe NC was a thin-client, where apps would run over the network.There have been lots of thin-clients around.−hernan715yYes, the NC (or at least the models I saw back in the day) was basically an X Windows station with a Java engine bolted on.
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This is the fifth attempt, if you count Oracle's Network Computer from the late 1990s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer
The NC was a thin-client, where apps would run over the network.
There have been lots of thin-clients around.
Yes, the NC (or at least the models I saw back in the day) was basically an X Windows station with a Java engine bolted on.