NetPC

NetPC is a standard for diskless PCs, developed by Microsoft and Intel as a competing standard to the Network Computer standard, because many NCs did not use Intel CPUs or Microsoft software.[http://www.byte.com/art/9704/sec6/art1.htm Cheaper Computing, Part I] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070404210105/http://www.byte.com/art/9704/sec6/art1.htm |date=2007-04-04 }}, Byte magazine, April 1997. Network Computer was launched by Oracle Corporation in the mid-1990s.