Microsoft steals the sunshine: new computers. (Sun Microsystems to introduce its new network computer)
Economist (US), The, November, 1996
Sun Microsystems hopes its JavaStation network computer, which will run on the Java language, will replace personal computers. At $1,200, the cost of the new computer, does not seem like a good deal, until the low cost to run it is considered. Separate servers would store programs.
BARELY a day goes by without some computer company claiming that it is releasing a "breakthrough" product related to the Internet. Sun Microsystems' new JavaStation, which was unveiled on October 29th, should have been closer to meeting that description than most. The JavaStation is the first of the Californian firm's vaunted network computers (NC). Such machines, argues Sun, will oust the personal computer (PC), just as the PC toppled the mainframe. Unfortunately-but perhaps...
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