| 31. | "Dumb terminals " are screens and keyboards that are supported by servers and mainframes, and have no storage or processing power.
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| 32. | In the meantime, IBM is pushing its own NC to replace its dumb terminal which can also link to the Internet.
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| 33. | Estimates of the number of dumb terminals in use range as high as 30 million, compared with 250 million PCs worldwide.
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| 34. | Apparently, according to these two visionaries, the Internet will turn our smart, independent Windows 95 and NT clients into dumb terminals.
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| 35. | The TAS system soon was succeeded by the EVE system; more powerful and taking advantage of early-model PCs and dumb terminals.
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| 36. | Word processing was available either on dumb terminals like the PT25, PT45 and PST100, or on the partially intelligent PT65 terminal.
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| 37. | This turned a PC into a multiuser machine capable of supporting multiple concurrent users using dumb terminals attached by serial ports.
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| 38. | Each dumb terminal was connected to a session running up to 8 concurrent DOS virtual machines, all running on the host computer.
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| 39. | Now the hand-helds act as dumb terminals; patient information is immediately sent to the servers for storage and the hand-helds'memories are cleared.
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| 40. | A terminal that depends on the host computer for its processing power is called a " dumb terminal " or thin client.
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