NetPCs

[Bob Jones]

I am intrigued with this idea.  Do you have a feel for how long the
current generation of Winterms will be viable -- as the browser software
becomes more complicated and processor speed requirements/expectations
increase?  How proprietary is the central server should you need to 
upgrade the hardware? 


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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Bob Samson wrote:

> 
> We will be experimenting with thin client public workstations this 
> year.  We'll be using Wyse Winterm workstations and Citrix' WinFrame 
> server software.  Everything we've seen in regards to these products 
> indicates that they should make very good, low maintenance, public 
> web browsing workstations.
> 
> We're just getting started on this project, so I don't have any 
> results (good or bad) to report.  However we're quite excited about 
> the prospect of providing some clusters of web browsing workstations 
> which won't require an army of staff to support.
> 
> Bob
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