Are Network Computers Evolutionary?
Among leading network operating systems, evolution is from peer-to-peer (DOS extensions) to client/server to, possibly, low-cost network computers (NC), which could package as intelligent set-tops married with home TV monitors or as “less smart” office workstations. Speed, that’s faster data communications speed, also matters more in NOS. On the commercial side, most business net users are moving slowly but surely to high-speed 100 mbps LANs. Emerging: what computer industry research firm Dataquest calls “gigabit ethernet,” with roots in both ethernet and fiber channel and with the ability to carry data at an effective rate of 1 gigabit per second while retaining ethernet framing and managed-object specifications. In wide area nets, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) technology and ATM servers accelerate throughput: 155 M ATMs as WAN backbones that carry voice, interactive video and data. In home systems, speed’s even hotter thanks to movies-on-demand, multi-media Internet and video-phon
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