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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DiViT who wrote (49530)	9/18/2000 7:07:06 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

<< thin client... a pc with no hard drive... all programs and data are stored on a server. >> < You mean like Microsoft's... WebTV box? > Nope. WebTVs have 1GB hard drives. These are used to store your TV viewing history so Microsoft can build its sinister database. A thin client is just NewTechBuzzwordSpeak for a dumb terminal. How you define "dumb" is up to you. It can be just a touchscreen transmitter with an image decoder, or it can be a diskless machine running a web browser. It could even be an Airport-equipped tablet used as a front-end to a Mac OS X server (watch the Mac OS X rumor sites over the next few months for more intimations of this). The only requirement is that a thin client should somehow be "thinner" (less memory, slower processor, smaller disk, whatever) than its host.