Dumb terminal?
Concept from early days of computing where you connect to a central resource for all your processing
- That machine has the CPU, the disk, the memory - and it does all the work
- You interact with it through a “terminal” which has no intelligence, hence it is “dumb”
- Completely different model from how PCs and Macs work today
- Terminals are character based hence very limited in terms of the user interface they can provide. No graphics, no icons, no mouse