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CONSORTIUM CREATES REFERENCE PROFILE FOR NETWORK COMPUTERS

On May 20, a consortium comprising Apple Computer, Netscape, IBM, Oracle, and Sun jointly announced a common set of guidelines for developing low-cost, easy-to-use network computing (NC) devices, called NC Reference Profile 1 (see description at right.) It is architecturally neutral and aims to facilitate the growth of network computing.
NCs complying with the planned NC Reference Profiles may take many forms—from desktops to laptops to videophones, pagers and even conventional PCs. All these devices may be linked to the Internet or Intranet and run basic applications such as Web browsers, e-mail applications, word processors, spreadsheets and presentation packages. In addition, NCs may function as multimedia machines by supporting video e-mail, 16-bit CD-quality sound and digital video.

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