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To: uu who wrote (2824)6/24/1997 7:05:00 PM
From: Jon Tara   of 64865
 
Addi, this is a dream world you are describing. It is not practical.

Small computers are going to run small applications. Larger computers are going to run larger applications. It is not reasonable to run the same software on the network appliance in your TV that you run on your PC.

I neither need nor want to run the same applications on my light switch as I do on my PC. (To carry things to an extreme. Don't snicker, as light switches were one of the prime applications Java was envisioned for...) I do not need to tap out a note in Word while I am deciding to set the dining room lights to dim or full brightness.

Sure, you can run applications on a server, but at a tremendous cost in bandwidth. Somebody also has to pay for those powerful high performance servers, that are going to have large and uneven loads thrown at them.

The whole reason why computing has exploded into such a powerful tool is because the lock of "king mainframe" was broken, and the same power was put onto individual desktops. This whole NC thing is going backwards in that regard - once again concentrating computing power and, ultimately, control.

I think as soon as consumers realize that, the NC is dead, at least for personal use. Nobody wants their stuff running on big brother's computer. Employees may have less of a choice in the matter than do individual consumers.
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