 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
kudos:2
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| Replace "Game Console" with "Computer" Come on.. this isn't new. They've been talking about offloading computing resources over the network since the 90's.
For example, articles about NetPCs: »education.sys-con.com/node/35730
Moore's law generally makes these kinds of predictions completely silly. It's cheaper to hammer out end-user high-end computing hardware than developing the kind of high availability massive computing infrastructure that a fully network-based system would demand.
Paying increasing monthly operational costs for network and facility expansion just doesn't make sense when you can simply deploy more capable hardware every few years at dirt cheap prices. |
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 tomkbPremium
join:2000-11-15
Tampa, FL
kudos:5 | >>> The next step is making the console simply a dumb terminal with the network and remote servers doing the heavy lifting
Remember java 
Write once, run anywhere. Or, the network is the computer? |
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| said by tomkb:>>> The next step is making the console simply a dumb terminal with the network and remote servers doing the heavy lifting Remember java Write once, run anywhere. Or, the network is the computer? Back when I worked for Fujitsu we had a warehouse full of Sun Java stations... doorstops they were. |
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