Author_Institution :
Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
A thin-client approach to mobile computing pushes as many services as possible on a remote server. Technology trends indicate, however, that an easy route to improving thin-client functionality will be to add disk storage, RAM, and a more powerful CPU. Thus, thin clients will rapidly become multipurpose thick clients. With time, users may come to consider their mobile system as their primary general-purpose computing device, maintaining their most-used files on the mobile system and relying on their desktop systems primarily for larger displays, keyboards, and other nonmobile interfaces
Keywords :
mobile computing; network computers; notebook computers; RAM; desktop systems; disk storage; mobile computing; mobile system; multipurpose thick clients; nonmobile interfaces; personal wireless devices; powerful CPU; primary general-purpose computing device; remote server; thick clients; thin clients; thin-client approach; thin-client functionality; Batteries; Cadmium; Communication system security; Computer security; Computer vision; Nickel; Personal communication networks; Portable computers; Read-write memory; Space technology;
