Network Computer Development In China

Stepping into the century of 21th,China's IT industry that is walking in the rains and winds has came through many things and is facing a new situation that new resources are being combined and new business chances are coming. What products and services will Chinese IT provide? How will they deal with the constant changes of network era, and also the rules of post-PC era? Network computer, as the product meeting the tendency of the development, is drawing people's more and more attention.Network Computer is a kind of information product in the network calculate era. It accesses and utilizes resources of data and applications through network. It has many merits, such as being safe, being easy to manage and maintain and having high quality and cost effective etc. Because of non-Wintle structure that Network Computer can apply and the rapid development of the open-source Linux OS, advantaged status have been created to develop our independent key technology. We can develop our independent key technology in Network Computer, such as OS and embedded CPU. It has important meanings to the improvement of our IT industry's quality and profit rates and to industry's healthy and continuous developmentAt present, NC has a good prospect in the market no matter from the aspect of macroscopic development or the analytic angle of micro demand. It will be the rich soil that is worth cultivating earnestly by Chinese IT people.From macroscopic aspect, firstly the flourishing developments of Domestic network Infrastructure constructions have already created a good physics environment and demand environment for the NC's popularization in China. Secondly NC, as a new computer device access to network with the high proportion in performance and price, can better adapt to the Internet development. Thirdly developing Network Computer with independent intellectual property right, the one that has adapted to the desire put forward by country and government-"Usinginformation development to promote industrialization, promoting the information development by industrialization". It will certainly gain great support of all circles of society and levels of government.It is NC's characteristics of easy management, low cost and security that form the foundation of micro demand.This paper is divided into six parts altogether. It discusses Network Computer mainly ha the first five parts and the sixth part is concerned with a development instance of the configuration interface of Network Computer.The first part introduces Network Computer concept and discusses it in terms of its development process, working patterns and operation principles, etc.The second part explains the relationship between Network Computer and information construction in China. It includes three aspects: the reason, the general idea and the strategic plan of our national development Network Computer.The third part discusses the key technology of Network Computer in two aspects: independent OS-Linux and the chip made in China.The fourth part presents the applications of Network Computer to our country.The fifth part looks into the future of Network Computer.The sixth part illustrates the whole design and development of the configuration interface of Network Computer.