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To: PFRice who wrote (3200)	9/7/1996 1:32:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	of 186894

Lawrence - Thanks for the response. Re: " thin client architecture. .." Just exactly who coins these terms? In the PC press, this expression never existed before about 9 - 12 months ago. Then sudenly, every journalist and special editor uses it, and nobody has ever defined it. I assume it is not an "anorexic customer", but a stripped down/"bare bones" piece of hardware - hence "thin client". Why don't we just call them "Karen Carpenter Connections"? More people will understand the gist of this expression. Further, the great possibility that "thin clients" will suffer an early death will be implicit with this new, more descriptive name. Re: " NC provides is that it is a more cost effective way of accessing Windows apps.." I thought that the NC, which supposedly has no real operating system, could not execute any applications, except for perhaps "Javapor" (I just coined this term - Java + Vapor = Javapor) apps, assuming a Java interpreter is included in the NC. Windows apps require MSDOS + Windows to execute (NT excepted). How can an NC execute these, unless it is really a PC? Paul

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