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> Same at Cebit '97 in Hannover.
> Up to now NC seems just like a (modern ?) host-terminal and a (lousy ?)
> X terminal.

You have failed to read between the lines of the NC spec:
An OS/2 computer is an NC and so is windows 95 (in potential).
The idea of the NC is to provide a super platform that will be
easily built on to of existing technologies and supply large
organization's and small shops a unified base for which to 
write their applications (the concept of Java).
Added to that NC's support a device which will support the
concepts of Java and add lower maintenance costs, the no hard disk
talk does not mean it doesn't need a HD but that the HD will
be invisible to the user and irrelevant to the running applications.

A dumb terminal is running a remote application and is DUMB.
An NC runs and caches applications locally ,yet stores the data
remotely (for backups). I am not saying that NC's are better for
such as you or I, but an example of my company which has 35 skilled
computer experts (programers) and 7 system administrators!
Imagine how many sys admins a none computer company need's!