An Alternative to Thick Clients for Personal Wireless Devices
Dragoş A. Manolescu · 2002
Thad Starner’s article from the January 2002 issue of Computer focuses on improving the functionality of soft-ware for personal wireless devices [7]. Starner proposes a shift from thin to thick clients as an easy route to achieving this goal. He argues that if the technology trends continue to evolve as they have done throughout the last decade, wireless devices will have comparable amounts of disk storage, RAM, and CPU power with primary