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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Dumb terminal n. A terminal that is one step above a glass tty, having a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by a smart terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal. Source: Jargon File. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Dumb terminals display text on a screen, usually in monochrome, and allow the user to send to commands to the server computer to input or display data, or to preform some action. They include limited processing power to enable them to issue simple commands ('escape sequences') for clearing the screen and positioning the cursor. Some later terminals included a limited graphic display capability.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, a number of companies manufactured dumb terminals. The most common were DEC, Wyse, Televideo, IBM, Lear-Siegler and Heath.
Today, most telnet clients provide emulation of the most common dumb terminal -- the DEC VT100.
Smart terminals provide additional resources to perform local editing and simple processing. Basically, such smart terminals (often referred to as network computers or simply NCs) are low-cost PC platforms with no external storage like hard-disks or CD-ROM drives booting from a server in the network.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dumb terminal."
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dumb terminal | 28 |
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| Language | Translations for "DUMB TERMINAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | uintelligent terminal (conversational terminal), simpel terminal (conversational terminal), let terminal (conversational terminal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | domme terminal (conversational terminal), niet-intelligente terminal (conversational terminal), lichte terminal (conversational terminal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yksinkertainen pääte (conversational terminal), vuorovaikutteinen pääte (conversational terminal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | terminal léger. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Dialogstation ohne eigene Intelligenz (conversational terminal), Dialogstation (interactive terminal), Datenstation für die Dialogfernverarbeitung (conversational terminal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | μη-νοήμον τερματικό (conversational terminal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umbday erminaltay terminal elemental (conversational terminal). (various references) dum terminal (conversational terminal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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