Not so long ago, most computer users didn’t own their own machines. Instead, they shared time on mainframes or servers, interacting with this new technology through remote terminals. While the rise of ...

Once upon a time no one had computers on their desks, but some researchers had terminals in their offices that let them remotely access a big computer somewhere else. Now the idea of terminal ...

Now that Windows XP supports desktop remote control over the network, we see a cycle close, a cycle that has been closing in on us for a long time. Remote control is not new. In fact, mainframe dumb ...

A quick journey through the lost age of "glass teletypes." From the earliest days of digital computers, researchers often interacted with these novel electronic beasts through blinking lights, paper ...

Since the early 1980s, corporate computing power has shifted away from the big central computers that were hooked to "dumb terminals" on employees' desks and toward increasingly powerful desktop and ...

Is the concept of a "dumb terminal" returning? Computing often comes full circle in terms of where hardware is put, and it seems Virtualization is making the concept of a dumb terminal an attractive ...