Top Document: Network Computers and comp.sys.net-computer.* newsgroups FAQ v1.10 Previous Document: 5. What are thin clients? Next Document: 7. What are set top boxes? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge 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. Many people, especially the press, seem to confuse the idea of Network Computers with that of dumb terminals, referring to NCs as "dumbed down" computers. 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. User Contributions:Top Document: Network Computers and comp.sys.net-computer.* newsgroups FAQ v1.10 Previous Document: 5. What are thin clients? Next Document: 7. What are set top boxes? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: js@null.net
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