dale wrote:
On 12/29/17 9:03 PM, Pabst Blue Ribbon wrote:
dale wrote:
After around 25 years of enjoying peer-peer desktop computing with self
administration I look back to client/server models and want something
for most of what I do without my own machine/network admin.

How about a terminal/thin-client running a cloud distributed java
byte-code OS with availability of byte-code apps including development?

Inferno is what you want.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)


know of anyone running a safe and reliable server and a thin-client?

Ummm, yeah, whole bunch of people. Did you read the link? This is not a new
idea, it was around since times of Plan 9.


The only thing besides that I would want is hardware input/output like:
CD/DVD, USB stick, memory card, etc. might give a rise to the hardware
consumable market ...

With the right model I think OS or network development is even possible