A lesson in technology sharing - Tom Abate, SF Chronicle Staff Writer

A Redwood City company has devised a way to make one desktop PC run up to seven workstations -- each with its own keyboard, monitor and mouse -- by sharing a single microprocessor. The Xtenda card being sold by nComputing turns a desktop PC into the equivalent of a mainframe computer -- then lets seven people at seven desks use one PC as if everyone had their own processors. Stephen Dukker, chief executive of privately held nComputing, likened the Xtenda technology to the 1960s and '70s concept of time-share computing: using a powerful, central computer to drive many "thin clients" -- industry slang for keyboards and monitors without their own microprocessor.


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