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To: Stormweaver who wrote (18960)8/27/1999 11:25:00 AM
From: QwikSand  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
I guess I view anything other than a true compute-only client backed by bandwidth as a short-term tactical step. It might well make money for the entrepreneur, but it is marking time until the "real thing" (i.e., bandwidth) gets here, and I don't agree that the real thing is in the far future. That I guess is the big question.

Eventually physical location can't matter...you walk up to any network end-node with some kind of screen and some kind of keyboard (maybe not always the same kind), or initiate a wireless connection, wave your unique badge at the server somehow (smart card, secure password, etc.), and you're running. I want to download the business logic to the client on a just-in-time basis rather than going through an install or a lot of local caching; don't want to update on-disk copies of the same thing. I agree that most of the compute cycles can't run on the server as Reginald points out: the number of compute cycles required per client will always keep going up no matter how fast processors get. For the great majority of applications, however, the amount of bandwidth required per client is not likely to forever outstrip the speed of networks (total network capacity as the number of clients explodes is another story).

My hard-line 2 cents.

Regards,
--QwikSand
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