A few months ago, a glass-house industry consortium defined the network computer (NC) as a Java-ready diskless PC costing less than the price of a good filing cabinet. It now appears ("Inside the NC," November 1996) that the definition is broad enough to include any computer that runs mainstream Internet applications. How long before another article counts all the Java-ready machines on the Internet and declares the NC a raging success?
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Was That an NC?
