In many respects, today's Internet actually mirrors the old mainframe model, with the browser playing the role of " dumb terminal ."
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Note, however, that the secondary computer could be quite minimal, since you are essentially using it only as a " dumb terminal ".
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"We're trying to refocus Wyse Technology from being the old dumb terminal company to an entrepreneurial company, " said Wyse CEO Douglas Chance.
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Even IBM has firmly tied its fortune to this nineties version of dumb terminal computing, completely rejecting the lessons of the IBM PC.
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This configuration of a centralized computer or mainframe computer with remote " dumb terminals " remained popular throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s.
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Once connected, your computer is basically a dumb terminal from which you issue commands, as though you were actually typing on the host machine.
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Mobile data terminals feature a dumb terminals most have been replaced with fully functional PC hardware, known as MDCs ( Mobile Digital Computers ).
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This system is more profitable than a dumb terminal because there is no need to waste time downloading an entire application for one task.
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The system used telephone lines and modems connected to personal computers or to dumb terminals which had built in modems and no processing functionality.
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Since then, it has shipped 40, 000 network computers and hopes to eventually replace the estimated 40 million dumb terminals in the market right now.
