• PaulHoule 6 hours ago

    Reminds me at the time when the Uni at my library was a Sun shop and I had my own

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray

    and a Sun server under my desk. We were hoping we could use Sun Rays instead of Windows for computers that patrons use to access the online catalog but after the collapse of Netscape 4 and before Mozilla rebranded as Firefox you could not get a modern web browser to build on Solaris.

    • apricot 5 hours ago

      That's a proprietary thin client, not a PC.

      • tiernano 6 hours ago

        the title is a bit misleading... it's a thin client, not a full PC.

        • undefined 6 hours ago
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          • JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 6 hours ago

            > personal computer

            > stream from a server controlled by Microsoft

            Choose one.

            Also a dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42183829