Network computer (brand)

diskless desktop computer device made by Oracle Corporation from about 1996 to 2000

thumb|upright=1|A side-by-side size comparison of a Quarter (United States coin)|US Quarter, a Gumstix Overo Earth, a stick of gum, and the Gumstix Summit expansion board. Gumstix was an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redwood City, California. It developed and manufactured small system boards comparable in size to a stick of gum. In 2003, when it was first fully functional, it used ARM architecture system on a chip (SoC) and an operating system based on Linux 2.6 kernel. It had an online tool called Geppetto that allows users to design their own boards. In August 2013 it s

thumb|Sun JavaStation-NC thumb|Sun JavaStation-NC (rear view) The JavaStation was a variant of Sun Microsystems' Network Computer (NC) developed between 1996 and 2000, and intended to run only Java applications.