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To: i-node who wrote (8162)	12/22/1997 1:00:00 PM
From: Steve C.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10836

> I can't, for the life of me, see why anyone > would want one -- at least not in a business setting Remote sites, POS; systems where you want to limit the amount of moving parts. I can see NCs with no disk drives, no fans. They may not be there yet, but is on the way. There are also great savings in standardizing configurations in a network computing architecture. Java does this well and NCs will do this better. I agree that NCs are not ready for prime time right now. (Is any first generation product?) But I would not rule them out for the future.