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 | | Dumb terminals are popular in work environments where workers do not need access to graphical applications such as those provided by the X Window System. | | | Terminals provide a convenient and low-cost way to access your FreeBSD system when you are not at the computer's console or on a connected network. | | | Dumb terminals are specialized pieces of hardware that let you connect to computers over serial lines. |
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| | A.P. Lawrence Linux/Unix Consultant: Terminals |
| | Therefore, since both of these (the terminal and the computer) want to send characters on pin 2 and receive on pin 3 for (DB25 connections), it is necessary to use a null modem, or a crossed cable (at least 2 and 3 swapped) for the computer and the terminal to be able to communicate. | | | You generally can't print graphics through a terminal- often certain bytes won't be passed at all, and of course there's always the magic sequence that tells it to stop doing transparent print: that definitely can't be in the data. | | | But there are conditions where this will not work- for example, a terminal emulator running on a Windows machine can do local printing, but it usually will not work if the printer is a "Windows only" printer because of the way that the emulator sends the data. |
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| | 6. What are dumb terminals? |
| | Dumb terminals are display and input devices which don't process data and input locally, instead transmitting input to a computer to which it is connected and displaying the resulting output. | | | This is not true, unlike dumb terminals which simply display the output of a program running on a server elsewhere on the network, Network Computers actually do local processing and are much closer to PCs than to dumb terminals. | | | Some Network Computers however do support protocols, such as X Window and ICA, which allow them to be used as dumb terminals to display the output of a program running on a server in additional to programs running locally, so that they are backwards compatible. |
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| | STI Computer Service Inc. - Centralized Computer with Dumb Terminals |
| | Dumb terminals are attached to a centralized computer to allow multiple operators to work on the system at the same time (also known as multi-user, or multitasking). | | | However, a large and expensive centralized computer was needed to handle the dumb terminal requests for system resources (because the dumb terminals have limited memory and editing capabilities), and as additional terminals were added the speed of the system would degrade. | | | As system speed degrades with the addition of more dumb terminals, a larger, faster and more expensive centralized computer is required to maintain an acceptable terminal response time. |
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http://www.perfectcare.com/main/bills/Centralized.html
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| | Discussion Paper |
| | A terminal is a device that performs both input and output because it consists of a monitor (output), a keyboard (input), and a video card. | | | The dumb terminal is connected to a host computer. | | | The intelligent terminal on the other hand, in addition to the monitor and keyboard, also has a memory and processor that has the capability of performing some functions independent of the host computer. |
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http://homepages.ius.edu/STORTORE/chp6.htm
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| | Video Terminal and Terminal-Emulator Information |
| | Welcome to my Archive of Video-Terminal Information concerning character-cell video-display terminals, serial-line remote-graphics terminals, and software that emulates them. | | | "Terminal Services" functions in Microsoft Windows, which use the proprietary | | | Setting up your computer's operating system to support terminals. |
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http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal_index.html
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| | www.ElfQrin.com - Elf Qrin's hacking lab |
| | The software that makes the PC to work as a dumb terminal is called terminal emulation s/w. | | | I think basically they are computers that do nothing for themselves, but instead are just used to connect to a server, people will use the dumb terminal to log into that. | | | By attaching this PC to host through a cable and running a software from this PC we can emulate it to work as if it is a dumb terminal.At such time however the memory and disk are not in use and the PC cannot carry out any processing on its own. |
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http://www.elfqrin.com/hacklab/board.php?thread=6288&did=edge0&disp=6288
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| | Boundless targets dumb terminals CNET News.com |
| | The terminals are called "dumb" because they have very little processing power; nearly all of the computer "intelligence" resides on the mainframe. | | | That's where Esker's software comes in: It lets the Boundless machines "emulate," or pretend, to be dumb terminals so they hook up to mainframes as well as connect to the Net or local corporate servers. | | | The terminal emulation software will also run on the Model 300 when it ships later this year, featuring embedded Windows, a built-in Web browser, and Java support. |
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http://news.com.com/2100-1033-200835.html?legacy=cnet&st.ne.fd.mdh
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| | "Dumb" terminals for Windows CNET News.com |
| | Citrix Systems in its products referred to generically as a "Windows terminal." Citrix is already supplying this technology to a number of manufacturers which are already offering thin clients and network computers. | | | (MSFT) is embarking on yet another initiative to lower the cost of owning and operating computers, this time proposing Windows-based computers similar to low-cost network computers and the "dumb" computer terminals of yore. | | | The Net PC is appearing more and more to be simply a low-end personal computer with enhanced networking awareness and capability, while the Windows terminal is very much unlike a PC and more of a network-centric "dumb" computer. |
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http://news.com.com/News/Item/0,4,12824,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh
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| | Dumb Terminals Rule! |
| | And by the way, in case you're wondering, we use Wyse 60 terminals because there is currently no microcomputer-based program that emulates all the functions of the Wyse 60 that are used by our automation system. | | | The program that comes the closest is not secure enough to use in a library environment. | | | A simple and robust setup, with different functions distributed to seperate, specialized devices, making troubleshooting and management relatively easy. |
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| | ITP.net {Features: Dumb terminals} |
| | And, while the hardware vendors are offering dumb terminals that come with a customised thin client processor, basic memory, an operating system and a browser with network connectivity for as little as US$350, it ignores the fact that IT managers then have to add the monitor, peripherals and software licenses. | | | However, those keen to promote thin client computing argue that even if the initial outlay for dumb terminals is higher then the total cost of ownership (TCO) is lower as the machines see active service for longer than the average PC. | | | To help local CIO’s expand their computing environments while retaining control and limiting costs, a few key vendors are pushing infrastructure access solutions that allow IT managers to arm users with dumb terminals that operate without hard disks and maintain minimal memory or RAM. |
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| | Hitachi plays dumb in shunning notebooks Tech News on ZDNet |
| | Network terminals--also known as dumb terminals--look like regular computers with a display and keyboard. | | | But they have no hard disk drives or floppy disk drives, and all tasks are carried out by interacting with server computers, where data and software are stored. | | | Hitachi, Japan's largest electronics maker, said Tuesday it will start using network terminals with no memory function in place of notebook PCs to protect the company from possible data leaks. |
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| | PCWorld.com - Microsoft Resurrects Dumb Terminals |
| | Terminal Server has already inspired a new generation of thin-client devices--simple systems stripped of the disk drives, high-end CPUs, and expandability that characterize general-purpose PCs. | | | In addition, terminals lack breakdown-prone moving parts and use fewer potentially incompatible hardware drivers than PCs. | | | An important yet obscure new version of Microsoft Windows--called Windows NT Server 4.0 Terminal Server Edition--may radically change the way you work. |
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| | BitFontEdit a SOFT-FONT EDITOR (BITMAP) FOR DUMB TERMINALS: CREATE A PATTERN FILE FROM SOFT-FONT: sf2pat |
| | The sf2pat program converts soft-font for Wyse or VT220 terminals to a drawing of a bitmap (a pattern file). | | | The resulting pattern file (after adding the cell size and chars/band size using an editor) is then given as input to he pat2sf program and VT220 type soft-font is created. | | | This bitmap pattern file is just an ordinary ASCII file with pixels dots represented by *'s. |
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| | LinuxQuestions.org - XDMCP, dumb terminals - where Linux users come for help |
| | Older hardware can work effectively as an X terminal assuming you can get over some issues like whether they have built-in network cards or cd drives. | | | In principle, there is absolutely no reason why not, but if you have to buy an IBM mainframe it's going to turn out pretty expensive. | | | LinuxQuestions.org - XDMCP, dumb terminals - where Linux users come for help |
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| | BitFontEdit a SOFT-FONT EDITOR (BITMAP) FOR DUMB TERMINALS |
| | In the future it may be extended to generate font for printers. | | | Then this program scans these drawings and converts them to the soft-font code needed for downloading to terminals or printers. | | | You draw the characters as *'s in a text file using any editor or word processor. |
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| | The UNIX Forums - Regarding UNIX dumb terminals |
| | I am extremely familiar with connecting "dumb" terminals to Unix servers as well as PC's using terminal emulation software. | | | The UNIX Forums - Regarding UNIX dumb terminals | | | May I ask what version of Unix are you using? |
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| | Thin-Client Technology |
| | If you have to restore your backups to a different server configuration, you may need to write some new log-on scripts, but because all the computing is server-based, you should be able to make the changes easily. | | | There are many advantages to this type of environment, known as thin-client or server-based computing, including lower hardware costs and easier client management. | | | Any PC can be a client, but because very little processing is performed at the desktop, businesses can also use low-cost terminals that have no moving parts (no hard drive) and a generally small amount of memory (RAM). |
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| | Wyse dumb terminals in Linux |
| | How much of a problem depends on the exact terminal and the exact program. | | | You'll find a few odd things that Wyse does differently and any program that has hard coded escape sequences (instead of using TERMINFO) will be a problem. | | | That will depend on what Distribution of linux user runs on. |
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| | Computer Dealer News: Dumb terminals smarten up - Industry Trend or Event |
| | Thin-client computing has its roots in what was popularly known as "dumb terminal" technology: applications reside on a single CPU, and multiple users have access to those applications, but no hard drives or bells or whistles -- just a monitor and an input device. | | | Over the years the concept evolved into what is now commonly known as thin-client computing. | | | The Microsoft name and logo doesn't hurt the market either, he says. |
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| | [TriLUG] Dumb Terminals? |
| | I'm assuming that the computer wouldn't need a floppy or cd-rom either. | | | What exactly is needed inside the computer for a dumb terminal? |
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| | t1's wan -->Re: dumb terminals connection to remote host via dsl? |
| | I am using VisionFS to provide Windows file sharing and the pc's mount the "Quotes on UNIX" share as drive E: allowing me to set Excel and Word to default to the E: drive for document storage. | | | If this isn't exactly what you wanted, please try our Search (there's a LOT of techy and non-techy stuff here about Linux, Unix, Mac OS X and just computers in general!): | | | On the client's system ports 2 and 3 are used for dumb terminals and ports 5 and 6 are assigned to serial printers with hardware flow control. |
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http://aplawrence.com/Bofcusm/992.html
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| | Dumb Terminals and Pay-Per-Use Software. |
| | The data must be stored in the remote computer, (a "server") that supplies the processing power and the data storage. | | | I want to control what is in my computer, what is not installed and where my information is stored. | | | Dumb terminals are not for me for several reasons. |
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| | Dumb terminals and Windows-based terminals, used, refurbished and new |
| | Windows-Based Terminals and Thin Clients --Attach to Windows NT and Unix hosts via an ethernet, token ring, or serial connection. | | | A highly-simplified alternative to the typical network PC--no hard drive, no software; software processing and upgrades are done on an application server. | | | Dumb terminals: the low cost, efficient input/output device. |
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| | The PC Era Is Just Beginning |
| | If a company was large enough even to afford computers, they were mostly so-called dumb terminals hooked up to large mainframe computers. | | | Back when IBM (IBM) launched its first personal computer in 1981, business computing was a scarce resource. | | | Precious computing power was carefully rationed out for back-office tasks that needed a lot of number-crunching, such as accounting or inventory control. |
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| | Free dumb terminals - Pick Database |
| | I tried to donate some of my old computers to charity. | | | Donate the computer to some local charity and you can take a tax write off | | | Glen, if you don't get an offer, you might want to contact Vecmar |
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| | QSI - Manufacturer of Mobile Data and Operator Interface Terminals |
| | QSI's Qlarity™ programming language, and our hardware configuration capabilities, allow you to customize an operator interface terminal to meet your needs. | | | QSI excels in making custom or semi-custom human machine interface terminals that withstand high levels of shock, vibration, humidity and other environmental parameters. |
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| | Dumb terminals end up a smart solution - theage.com.au |
| | When the opportunity arose to switch to PCs during a recent $2.3 million branch network upgrade, the cost of maintaining the head office PCs convinced HCF's management information systems manager Wayne Miller to not only stick with thin clients in remote offices, but to deploy them in the head office as well. | | | Miller chose to deploy Wyse Winterm 3235LE thin client terminals - with no hard drive but Windows CE and Internet Explorer embedded in the memory. | | | Dumb terminals end up a smart solution - theage.com.au |
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| | Sun and IBM: New JavaOS to replace dumb terminals, not PCs |
| | Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM Corp.'s operating system for network computers will feed a new demand for up-to-date computing systems, rather than replace desktop PCs, the two companies said. | | | Sun and IBM plan to make the new software, dubbed JavaOS for Business, available by the third quarter of this year. | | | The operating system, which will be based on Sun's Java language, will be targeted at the huge installed base of terminals connected to central mainframe computers, according to officials from the companies. |
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| | X-bit labs Community :: View topic - Understanding Unix Terminals |
| | PCs running under Linux or FreeBSD (or another unix variant) can use dumb terminals as well. | | | X-bit labs Community :: View topic - Understanding Unix Terminals | | | The terminal connectors were either 8 or 10 pin; They looked like ethernet jacks and connectors, but they were not. |
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| | Building Dumb Terminals with Linux: Before we begin |
| | Colleges and educational institutions that wish to provide secure terminals for students in their computer labs | | | Students with a basic knowledge of networking and exploring the virtues of Linux and | | | In later versions of this document, I also intend to include detailed cost metrics and first hand statistics on the performance of dumb terminals. |
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| | dumb terminals |
| | A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. | | | A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. | | | The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. |
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| | SoThin » How Dumb are your Dumb Terminals? |
| | SoThin™ provides the centralised computing environment without degradation in quality of printing and multimedia services which are associated with dumb terminals. | | | This allows a reversible, controlled transition to thin client computing at | | | So does it seem the glory days of hardware Dumb Terminals are coming to an end? |
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| | Dumb Terminal: a site for terminal users/lovers |
| | Mainstream computers - Windows, OS/2 and Linux boxes and Macintoshes - usually come supplied with terminal emulation software of various sorts. | | | What could any insanely great web-user - someone like yourself, in other words - want with a VT100 when you can have three flavours of Windows (98, NT, CE...), a Mac, OS/2, half-a-dozen variations of the X-Windows system on Linux, other flavours of Linux, BeOS, EPOC32 and others? | | | The site is here to help people maximise the potential of dumb terminals in all their manifestations, especially for internet use and especially on unusual computers. |
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| | I remember dumb terminals -- wolf's comment on "Microsoft Recapitulates IBM" TalkBack on ZDNet |
| | A distributed system with local intelligence in the nodes scales much better, especially when tasks need to be performed locally. | | | X divded by 1 will always be better than X/n. | | | Having said that I LOVE Windows Terminal Server/Citrix as they overcome the bandwidth problem and provide a good economical solution, with all the benefits of the mainframe model. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Technology Technology Future trends |
| | Every few years there are campaigns for things like "utility computing", where companies want to move all the power back to the centre, leaving users with the equivalent of dumb terminals. | | | The third trend is for power to move from the centre to the edge of the network. | | | We used to live in a world were networks were big and powerful and the devices were dumb: think of a TV set, or a black Bakelite phone. |
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| | LinuxSA Mailing List: Re: dumb terminals - 286/386/other |
| | There might be an example of this at the bottom. | | | Require a 'null' modem cable for most terminals. | | | This is because, terminals were originally designed to sit at the end of a telephone line with a modem link in the middle when connecting to a host machine. |
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| | Fujitsu smartens up dumb terminals - Printer friendly - ZDNet UK News |
| | Fujitsu ICL today announced a range of Windows-based Network Computers, as Netscape, Oracle and Sun closed ranks to oppose the conventional PC model. | | | They use a specially designed front-end to run Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT applications from an application server. | | | The terminals feature multiple passwords; and network managers can prohibit users from downloading sensitive material. |
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| | Dumb Terminals with Browsers |
| | There will be about 50 of these computers, does anyone have any suggestion for dumb terminals that can run this kind of technology (ideally a browser)? | | | I am intending to set-up a network of machines to run a web-based (Flash and HTML) presentation. | | | Looking for cheap dumb terminals for run webpages |
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| | Dumb Terminals - Relisys, IBM, ADDS, DEC, WYSE |
| | dumb terminals, Relisys, TR175 II, 3151, 3153, 3197, 3472, 3477, 3487, 42H0785, IBM, refurbished, Digital, DEC, vt420, vt520, ADDS, ADDS-1010, ADDS-4000, Boundless, used terminals, IBM, WYSE, Esprit, WY-50, WY-60, WY-150, WY-160 | | | For detailed information on these products, their images, or accompanying text please contact Ken Heilman. | | | Terminal - complete with keyboard (P/N 8131276), AMBER 132-COL, 14IN 2SER, 1PAR W/RS422 MAIN PORT |
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