Network Computing Devices is a company founded by Judith Estrin and William Carrico in the late 1980's to produce a new class of products now known as a "thin client". At that time these devices were known as network terminals or X Terminals. The products were some of the earliest examples of a thin client and providing remote access to data in something other than ASCII as was common with traditional terminals of the time. A thin client, sometimes also called a lean client, is a computer (client) in client-server architecture networks which depends primarily on the central server for processing activities. ... KDE 3. ...
The X Protocol provided a way to show high resolution images of data and graphics over a network connection. Network Computing Devices (NCD) supported a range of network protocols including TCP/IP, Token-Ring, DecNet and others. The Internet protocol suite is the set of communications protocols that implement the protocol stack on which the Internet runs. ... Token-Ring local area network (LAN) technology was developed and promoted by IBM in the early 1980s and standardised as IEEE 802. ...
Acquisitions
NCD purchased PCXware, which made an X Windows System for Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ...
NCD purchased Z-Code Software in 1994. Z-Code made Z-Mail, a cross platform open standards email client. Z-Mail was later sold by NCD to Netmanage. An email client (or mail user agent [MUA]) is a computer program that is used to read and send e-mail. ...
NCD purchased TekXPress X-terminals line from Tektronix Tektronix is a United States corporation that is currently a major presence in the test, measurement, and measuring industry. ...
Computernetworkingdevices are units that mediate data in a computernetwork.
Router: a specialized networkdevice that determines the next network point to which to forward a data packet toward its destination.
Switch: a device that allocates traffic from one network segment to certain lines (intended destination(s)) which connect the segment to another network segment.
Originally, a "computer" (sometimes spelled "computor") was a person who performed numerical calculations under the direction of a mathematician, often with the aid of a variety of mechanical calculating devices from the abacus onward.
Computers have been used to control mechanical devices since they became small and cheap enough to do so; indeed, a major spur for integrated circuit technology was building a computer small enough to guide the Apollo missions and the Minuteman missile, two of the first major applications for embedded computers.
Computer operating systems and applications were modified to include the ability to define and access the resources of other computers on the network, such as peripheral devices, stored information, and the like, as extensions of the resources of an individual computer.
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