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A stripped-down information appliance
used to communicate with a central information source, often used as a
synonym for network computer. The economic idea behind thin clients
is a simple and attractive one: don't pay for features that you don't need.
So computers of this kind have no cd-rom drives, no hard disks and no
sound cards. The only software they possess is that needed to connect to the
mother-ship-like server, which provides applications and services as
they are required. So far the thinness of such devices has been more or less
matched by that of the business being done by their manufacturers. |
