One of the 90x's biggest advantages over the competition was its asynchronous serial port controller ( the ITS or Intelligent Terminal Server ) based on a 16-bit bit-slice processor.
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The telecommunication-network-business area includes multi-service DSLAMs and fax machines; cellular devices such as mobile phones, PDA phones, and hybrid devices called mobile intelligent terminals ( MITs ); and satellite receivers.
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According to one of the designers, Masatoshi Shima, the market focus was on high performance printers, high-end cash registers, and intelligent terminals, although Ralph Ungermann also saw other opportunities, such as computers.
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Around the mid 1980s intelligent terminals, costing less than most dumb terminals would have a few years earlier, could provide enough user-friendly local editing of data and send the completed form to the main computer.
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Ray and Roche wanted to develop a new more intelligent terminal, and employed a trio of engineers who knew each other from their interests in Amateur Radio : Victor Poor, Harry Pyle and undergraduate Jonathan Schmidt.
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In early 1970, a number of the original developers, including Ben Riggins ( the principal architect of the early releases ) relocated to California and continued CICS development at IBM's intelligent terminal ( instead of the incompatible Intel chip, and immature ASCII-based Microsoft 1980 DOS ).
