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To: P.T.Burnem who wrote (4816)	12/28/1997 5:19:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

NC is just another name for a diskless workstation, and those have been around for at least ten years. I guess you missed my comment that the NC was a reconfigured PC and some NC configurations, not all, will be zero-spindle as you suggest. I think you might also have missed my comment about there being no one body coming down from the mountain top declaring what and NC is, too. It's patently false to state, categorically, that the NC is another name for a diskless workstation as evidenced by the NCs with hard-disks and full-blown multimedia capability. In fact, your definition is about a couple of years old and rather trite. What's really got me scratching my head is why you offered that definition of an NC in direct response to my decoupling of the NC and the software which is really what the NC genre is all about: The software* is truly a radical departure, a bona fide pardigm shift from current software norms.* It's almost as if I said Country and Westerm is radically different from Heavy Metal and you turn around and declare that the CD is just like an LP only different and chickens don't have lips.