Cary,
As David mentioned, the NC is a bit different (although he didn't reallly expand on that.) The PC box makers are all good at designing, building, and delivering large volumes of *hardware* efficiently. However, not one of those companies develops the *software* operating system that runs inside the box once it's on the customers desktop. This is what NCD has that they don't. Just as with PC's, if the Dells and the Compaqs are going to sell NC's, they have to get their operating system from someone. Microsoft does have their light(er) weight Windows CE operating system, but you can bet it won't talk to anything but a Windows NT server. That's way too limiting IMO.
BTW, I still don't understand what possessed Microsoft to use a video-conferencing protocol (T.Share) to drive their WBTs. I guess it is because 1) it was a remote display protocol, 2) it existed, 3) Microsoft already owned it (I think.) I can just see us all sitting around waiting for Microsoft to tweak T.Share until it works with reasonable performance, so that Hydra can be released, and then nobody uses it. We just want the multi-user extensions, damn it!
Jim
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