"Nope. WebTVs have 1GB hard drives. These are used to store your TV viewing history so Microsoft can build its sinister database."
WebTV updates set-top boxes
By Stephanie Miles
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
June 2, 1999, 4:15 p.m. PT
update WebTV today introduced its new TV set-top boxes, and the next generation marks a significant departure from hardware the company has previously released.
As previously reported, television set-top box maker WebTV today relaunched its WebTV Classic and Plus products, as well as the complementary Internet service. The new boxes will be the first from the Microsoft subsidiary optimized for Windows CE operating system, although the hardware does not fully run on the Microsoft platform yet.
Despite the spate of new features, the new class of WebTV devices may be significant more for what they lack: namely, a hard drive.
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"The only requirement is that a thin client should somehow be "thinner" (less memory, slower processor, smaller disk, whatever) than its host."
I think the WebTV box meets your definition, whether you like it or not. |
