A new proposal is the Network Computer (NC). The Network Computer need not contain any secondary storage. The Network Computer can be any non-specific processor. Above the processor, Java operating System will be running. The Java OS can support a graphical user environment for running Java applets or applications.
The advantage of Network Computer is that maintenance is very low.
A lot of proposals for NC has come which include:
  • Net PC by Microsoft
  • WebRef by Motorola and HDS
  • Ordin reference platform of National Semiconductor
The advantage of Network Computer is that automatically it will boot up by getting information from the boot RAM and gets connected to the network.