Requires at least a 133-Mhz Pentium and 16MB ram. A normal PC with a Web browser that can support at least tables and forms. Usually it's an older, slower, smaller PC which allows the enterprise to avoid upgrade costs. Other applications can be run for local use. The critical applications run on a central machine with a web server to handle transactions.
Most processing is done on the central database server.
3 Variations on thin client types. There are, of course, many variations on the above categories. Two commonly proposed ones are outlined here. The same hardware and OS configuration as a browser client but with Java-capabilities. 3.2 Net PC Very similar to Networked PC, but often used to describe machines that don't even have a hard disk.