Comment on A Look at a Gaggle of Transputer Boards by dremu

In reply to Zangar the Pangarian.

Reminds me of the Sun Ray (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray )

Put one of these in each room, to a server somewhere running the actual processes. The idea is you could jump from place to place and have your desktop and application and data stay static.

The reality was, like so many Sun ideas, it was a solution in search of a problem. Even Oracle didn't know what to do with them, tried deploying them internally to use up existing stock, and discovered that a traditional laptop is far more sensible in, you know, every way.

Source: Me, (happily) ex-Oracleite.