What is a network computer?
A network computer or NC is one of the multiple Diskes of computers dependent and connected to another computer that contains or processes information instead of a hard disk. The term was originally a trademark Oracle in 1996, but now concerns any layout of computers connected to a common server. The network computer, which is also called a node without a disk, a hybrid client or a thin client, is a computer without a disk that lacks the disk drive, depends entirely on the information server and must start from the central server every time it starts.
Although similar, incomplete nodes and thin clients have different differences. The node without a disk can perform your own information processing and rely on the server when starting and for more complicated information processing. The thin client basically relies on the server for starting and all information processing. Thin clients only process their own user interface.
network computer arrangement have different advantages over POWorkstations counters network with hard drives. Network computers are cheaper for production and cheaper running and maintenance. They are also more easily updated because only the server needs to be updated than the entire network.
The network computer can only be launched with basic software and reducing the cost of the entire network. This efficiency can be supplied with a price. Disch workstations and thin clients can work more slowly when many workstations are used, the taxation of the central server.
The original network computer concept occurred shortly after the release of Microsoft Windows 95. Oracle tried to develop a concept that would depict the Microsoft operating system by introducing a computer that none had. Instead, Oracle's network computer would rely on Oracle databases to access applications and store information. Oracle network computer would be much cheaper than a personal assumeer.
unfortunately was forDukt released before he was ready. Network computers ran slowly and Oracle lacked sufficient product infrastructure. Prices of personal computers have fallen, so they were even more attractive to consumers and more competitive with network computers. Oracle network computers could not compete and the product was considered a failure.
Yet the concept was not completely abandoned and other developers used aspects of network computer technology to develop newer technologies similar to network computer such as a node without a disk, a thin client and a hybrid client. Netbooks and smartphones are examples of devices that use reduced operating systems and are primarily used to access Internet and applications that rely on Internet access.