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To: Jim Henke who wrote (3866)	9/2/1998 6:24:00 PM
From: Jim Henke	Respond to of 4453

More NCD esoterica. NCD and Conexus Enter into Distribution Agreement. conexus.com.au MCI gets a preview of ThinSTAR cis.ufl.edu From: "Joe Granto" <Joe.Granto@MCI.Com> Organization: MCI To: ccc@ufl.edu, NT-SUPPORT-FORUM-L@LISTS.UFL.EDU Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 15:31:47 -4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: NCD ThinSTAR 200 Reply-to: Joe.Granto@MCI.Com Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.54) Today some NCD reps did a presentation on the NCD ThinSTAR 200 Windows Terminal. This product was announced at the same time as Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server. Although skeptical, I have to admit I was impressed... This kind of technology might be of interest to some of you. The ThinSTAR series is only aWindows Terminal, but NCD has other terminals capable of running both X and Terminal Server client code. The ThinSTAR 200 is has a 100MHz NEC CPU, 8-32MB of RAM, 10Mbit NIC, and runs a Windows CE core. The 300 series meets Intel lean client specs, offering 24bit color, wake on LAN technology, 166MHz Pentium CPU, and a 10/100Mbit NIC. The 300 will not be out until early 4Q 1998. I spec'ed out a VERY good server for these units, and came up with $34,000 for a Compaq Proliant 6500, 4 processors, 2GB RAM, 10/100Mbit dual-channel NIC, RAID 5 array (18.2GB), blah blah blah. This machine could easily serve 120+ users (depending on what you run). It could possibly serve over 200. A 16MB ThinSTAR 200 goes for about $700, and $850 for a ThinSTAR 300. Someone may want to contact NCD and take a look at what they have to offer... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Granto, Ed.S., N.C.C. Joe.Granto@MCI.Com Systems Architect NT Architecture Team, MCI Office: (770)284-5061 VNET 949-5061 FAX: (770)284-4450