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The Network Computer?
What of the much hyped "$500 Network Computer"?
CPU, RAM, Screen and Keyboard and all software downloaded from the net when needed...
Reference: LAN Times, June 24, 1996
- Data Link Capacity
- LANs - 10, 16 and 100 Mb/s in both direstions
- ADSL - Asynchronous Subscriber Line - 576 Kb/s upstream, 6 Mb/s downstream
- Cable Modems - 10 Mb/s both ways
- HDSL High bit rate Digital SUbscriber Line -- up to 2 Mb/s in both directions
- ISDN - multiples of 64 Kb/s in each direction
- Wireless - CAI Wireless Systems - 27Mb/s downstream, 9.6 Kb/s upstream
- Lucent - 10 Mb/s both ways
- Satellite - 2 to 51 Mb/s both ways
- Software Availability
- Configuration Required
The NC Reference Profile
- IP Based Protocols
- TCP
- ftp
- telnet
- NFS
- UDP
- SNMP
- DHCP
- BOOTP
- WWW Protocols
- Email Protocols
- Multimedia Formats
- Security Standards
- SSL
- ISO 7816 SmartCards
- EuroPay/MasterCard/Visa specifications
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Last Update: 14/09/98 |
Web Author: Geoff May |
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