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 ...

With computers growing smarter by the day, why would anyone want to step back more than a decade and fill office cubicles with dumb terminals? The answer is simple - to keep cubicle computers in ...

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 ...

This article is excerpted from Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches and published by permission of Prentice Hall, all rights reserved ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you find a crusty old IT guy and give him half a chance, he’ll probably regale you with stories of how things were done “in the old days” where no one had their own computer and everyone worked on ...

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 ...

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 ...