chrisv wrote:
Pabst Blue Ribbon wrote:

dale wrote:

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.

It used to be that the "clients" were dumb serial terminals.

True, if you look at it this way it all can be dated back to the times of
mainframes and dumb terminals. If I understand dale correctly he was
looking for distributed OS where both server and client are running same
operating system. Inferno does exactly that. It's more complicated approach
but allows more flexibility and transparency.