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4-546: The first version of this specification was known as the NC1 Reference Profile. NCRP specified minimum hardware requirements and software protocols. Among the software requirements were support of IP-based protocols ( TCP/IP , FTP , etc.), www standards ( HTTP , HTML , Java ), email protocols, multimedia file formats , security standards. Operating systems used were NCOS or JavaOS . The minimum hardware requirements were: Although this initial NC standard

8-505: A smartcard option was available. This allowed user authentication to be performed in a secure manner, with SSL providing transport security. The smartcard also provided minimal local storage for ISP dialup configuration settings. This configuration data was not required for LAN-based NCs. Internet Protocol Suite Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include

12-667: The NC reference requirements. The reference profile was subsequently revised to use the StrongARM processor. After a trip by Ellison to Acer Group headquarters in 1996, he realised the importance to industry of having products based on Intel ( x86 -compatible) processors. NCI president Jerry Baker noted that "nobody [corporate users] had ever heard of the ARM chip". Many NCs operated via protocols such as BOOTP , DHCP , RARP and NFS . Both for ISP -bound and LAN -based reference implementation NCs,

16-410: Was intended to promote the diskless workstation model of computing, it did not preclude computers with additional features, such as the ability to operate either as a diskless workstation or a conventional fat client . Thus, an ordinary personal computer (PC) having all the required features, could technically be classified as a Network Computer; indeed, Sun noted that contemporary PCs did indeed meet

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