PaulHoule 8 months 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 8 months ago

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

cebert 8 months ago

Why wouldn’t you just use a Raspberry Pi if you wanted a cloud terminal?

tiernano 8 months ago

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