Remember that old adage that humans use only a tiny percentage of their brains? No? Well, there you go. Anyway, it turns out that the same might be said for personal computers. A California outfit called NComputing reckons that your standard $300 to $400 computer has about 95% unused capacity. So, NComputing has developed software and hardware that partitions a single computer out into, well, 10 or 12. You can see a video here, and it might help to have a visual:
Now, some of you might point out that there's nothing incredibly revolutionary about partitioning out a computer hard drive. It's just that NComputing has done for a fairly good price, and in many parts of the world, this could make the difference between one classroom sharing a PC, and all the students getting to have a workstation. Not surprisingly, NComputing is finding that its products are popular in the developing world, and so that's why I got Stephen Dukker, the company's CEO, on the line for a podcast. He started by giving the listener a description of how the NComputing set-up works:
Tags: Computer Peripherals, Computer Software, Computers, Desktop Computers
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