Hardware-based management has been available in the past, but it has been limited to auto-configuration ( of computers that request it ) using DHCP or BOOTP for dynamic IP address allocation and diskless workstations, as well as wake-on-LAN for remotely powering on systems.
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Already, however, there are signs that the pendulum is swinging back again, away from pure centralization, as thin client devices become more like diskless workstations due to increased computing power, and web applications start to do more processing on the client side, with technologies such as AJAX and rich clients.
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ISC designed its own GUI-based diskless workstations for use with these file servers, and ported DNIX again . ( Though ISC used Daisy workstations running Daisy DNIX to design the machines that would run DIAB's DNIX, there was negligible confusion internally as the drafting and layout staff rarely talked to the software staff.
