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To: Pierre-X who wrote (481)	1/2/1998 5:04:00 PM
From: Robert Scott	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2467

"Bigger pipes mean fatter desktops. Contrary to the "Network Computer" (NC) movement which tries to regress computing to the days of mainframe/terminal, increasing bandwidth everywhere-in the LAN, in the WAN, in Internet access-means greater requirements on the client side. As pipes get fatter, users download more, multitask more, run a far wider variety of apps, and save more documents. There is a reasonable case for thin clients in the corporate environment, but that case revolves totally around facilitating administrative control of specialized clients, resulting in lower support and maintenance costs for a corporate IS dept. For consumers and small businesses, thin clients make no sense at all." This would certainly go against George Gilder's cut at the future = more bandwidth means less need for fat clients as there will be less need to encode, decode info and most apps can run on the server. However, can't imagine use of speech recognition in the next few years except on a fat client - makes no sense to send all the audio over the LAN especially with $500 PCs.