bear73
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Thin Client is just another name for dumb terminal. and I really wish the PR pundits would quit comming up with slick words for old tech.
the dumb terminal was the way to go back in the 60s and 70s. I remember my dad bringing home a terminal that he would plug the phone handset onto, and then dial in to work to "work" on the mainframe at DEC. When the PC was just barely starting out, the big players maintained that the mainframe and dumb terminal was still going to be the way of the future. too bad they just couldnt see the road from there to here. Yes, for the business environment especially, the dumb terminal has alot of benifits. All of your licencing issues are all at one location, all of your software updates are at 1 location, no worries of employees adding unauthorized software or hardware.
AND even better news for the software developers as they can better monitor the software licences businesses use.
back in 2000 Microsoft started talking and looking into a system that would allow people to actively load software from their servers, rather than you buying the software disks and loading the program on your local machine...
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