Information: - Network Computing Devices ( NCD ) was a company founded in 1987 to produce a new class of products now known as a '' thin client '' . It was founded in Mountain View , CA , and when it closed it was headquartered in Beaverton , Oregon . The corporate founders were Mike Harrigan , Doug Klein , Dave Cornelius , Ed Basart , Martin Eberhard , and Kevin Martin . At that time these devices were known as network terminals or X Terminals . Judith Estrin and William Carrico joined the company about 6 months after its founding as its new CEO and executive vice president , and led the company through its IPO in 1992 . The products were some of the earliest examples of a thin client and providing remote access to data in something other than ASCII as was common with traditional terminals of the time . The X Protocol provided a way to show high resolution images of data and graphics over a network connection . NCD supported a range of network protocols including TCP / IP , token ring , DECnet and others . - A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out an arbitrary set of arithmetic or logical operations automatically. The ability of computers to follow a sequence of operations, called a "program", make computers very flexible and useful. Such computers are used as control systems for a very wide variety of industrial and consumer devices. This includes simple special purpose devices like microwave ovens and remote controls, factory devices such as industrial robots and computer assisted design, but also in general purpose devices like personal computers and mobile devices such as smartphones. The Internet is run on computers and it connects millions of other computers. - A U.S. state is a constituent political entity of the United States of America. There are 50 states, which are bound together in a union with each other. Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory, and shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government. Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government, Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons covered by certain types of court orders (e.g., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody). - A fat client (also called heavy, rich or thick client) is a computer (client) in clientserver architecture or networks that typically provides rich functionality independent of the central server. Originally known as just a "client" or "thick client" the name is contrasted to thin client, which describes a computer heavily dependent on a server's applications. - Beaverton is a city in Washington County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. The city center is west of downtown Portland in the Tualatin River Valley. As of the 2010 census, the population is 89,803. This makes it the second-largest city in the county and Oregon's sixth-largest city. Fire protection and EMS services are provided through Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue. - A thin client is a lightweight computer that is purpose-built for remote access to a server (typically cloud or desktop virtualization environments). It depends heavily on another computer (its "server") to fulfill its computational roles. The specific roles assumed by the server may vary, from hosting a shared set of virtualized applications, a shared desktop stack or virtual desktop, to data processing and file storage on the client's or user's behalf. This is different from the desktop PC (fat client), which is a computer designed to take on these roles by itself. - The Tualatin River is a tributary of the Willamette River located in Oregon in the United States. The river is approximately long, and it drains a fertile farming region called the Tualatin Valley southwest and west of Portland at the northwest corner of the Willamette Valley. There are approximately 500,000people residing on 15percent of the land in the river's watershed. Given the paragraphs above, decide what entity has the relation 'headquarters location' with 'portland'.
network computing devices