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"Christian McArdle" writes:
Any company that writes off desktop PC systems after 4 years is already
wasting huge amounts of money and probably contributing to landfill, and
has obviously never heard of thin client computing.

I'm not sure that C++ programming will be too fun on a thin client. Besides

I think you misunderstand a thin client.
C++ programming will completely impossible on a thin client,
just like it's impossible on an LCD monitor. Of course, in
either case it's possible on the associated computer (and in
the case of a thin client, the computer can easily be a 64
processor system, giving you vastly more power than you can
get in any desktop).

I'd rather eat turd than use most thin client applications.

What's a thin client application?

Latency of less than 0.1s is really needed or I fall asleep
waiting. OK for the plebs, I suppose, like public transport...

Thin clients achieve latencies much less that that.

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Andrew Gabriel