The rise and fall of network computers.

• Main Authors: Lee, Ernie Poh Khoon., Seow, Poh Sun., Tan, Joel Yi Ming.
• Other Authors: Das, Amit
• Format: Final Year Project
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Business::Information technology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/11466
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

"The network is the computer." This is an aphorism used by Sun Microsystems, which together with Oracle Corporation, introduced the concept of Network Computing to the computing world in 1996. They even proudly proclaimed network computers (NCs) to be the Personal Computer (PC) killer. But...