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The JavaStation NC is a network computers built and sold by Sun Microsystems during 1998 - 2000. It was the marketed successor to the Xterminal 1 and is succeeeded by the SunRay, although all three machines are fundamentally different. The JavaStation hardware ran Sun's own JavaOS and either Sun's Hotjava web browser, Sun's HotJava Views task-manager software, or custom Java applications of the customer's choice. JavaStation is a thin client -- a product relying on a network server for much of its processing .

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