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Real quick history: "Personal Computers" work computers that were personal because they did the own processing soap person did need to be hooked up to some mainframe to use a computer. Pretty much what we use a computer these days we use a PC. But back in the day we would sit we would sit at a "dumb terminal" which was simply a keyboard at a monitor connected to the mainframe computer. Thus, all the word processing or spreadsheet work we were doing at the dumb terminal was being processed at the mainframe. Thin clients are more similar to dumb terminals than to PCs. In a thin client network you have one server often hooked up through a fast connection to a switch, and many thin clients (i.e. not "thick clients") would also be looked up to that switch through fast though often not as fast connections to the switch. The boo-boo to server, for example 8.0.4 can act like a regular server on the network with thick clients (i.e. PCs). However, it also has the capability to be used as a thin client server. Ubuntu 8.0.4 uses LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) 5.0. |
Real quick history: "Personal Computers" work computers that were personal because they did the own processing soap person did need to be hooked up to some mainframe to use a computer. Pretty much what we use a computer these days we use a PC. But back in the day we would sit we would sit at a "dumb terminal" which was simply a keyboard at a monitor connected to the mainframe computer. Thus, all the word processing or spreadsheet work we were doing at the dumb terminal was being processed at the mainframe.
Thin clients are more similar to dumb terminals than to PCs. In a thin client network you have one server often hooked up through a fast connection to a switch, and many thin clients (i.e. not "thick clients") would also be looked up to that switch through fast though often not as fast connections to the switch.
The boo-boo to server, for example 8.0.4 can act like a regular server on the network with thick clients (i.e. PCs). However, it also has the capability to be used as a thin client server. Ubuntu 8.0.4 uses LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) 5.0.
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