[PLUG] I disagree with TheRegister's assessment of the PC's future...

[Aaron Burt]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 09:18:34AM -0700, Robert Kopp wrote:
> I have seen discussions of diskless workstations for
> both Linux and BSD, so that concept, at least, does
> not threaten open-source. I am not too familiar with
> the full range of applications, however.

Heh.

Unix and Linux have supported diskless workstations for a little
while now.  Like, 20 years.  The X Window system is a remote
thin-client protocol; folks only started running their X terminals and
their programs on the same machine when PCs got powerful enough.