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"The terminal was a computer but we didn't compute on it; computing was done in the computer center. The terminal, even though it had a nice color screen and mo
by fra 14y ago
"The terminal was a computer but we didn't compute on it; computing was done in the computer center. The terminal, even though it had a nice color screen and mouse and network and all that, was just a portal to the real computers in the back. When I left work and went home, I could pick up where I left off, pretty much. My dream setup would drop the "pretty much" qualification from that."
It exists! It's called a sunray
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray
- maxerickson 14y agoDoes Sun Ray make a phone? Of course I'm not serious, but the Sunray is one stack of technology that offers stateful session management, not a system for using the same computing environment on whatever hardware you happen to have at hand.
- fra 14y agoTouche, but they make a desktop client (oracle virtual desktop) and even an ipad app. Pretty good, but I agree it isn't yet enough.