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• dumb terminal -- a fatal case of stupidity.
• This computer is: a) not smart enough to be artificially intellige
  and b) not stupid enough to be a dumb terminal....
• dumb terminal n. A terminal that is one step above a glass tty, having a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by a smart terminal.
  Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal....
• dumb terminal: n. A terminal that is one step above a {glass tty}, having a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by a {smart terminal}.
  Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal....
• Dumb Terminal - doesn't understand what you're trying to get it to do.
  Intelligent Terminal - one that does understand what you're trying to do, but is clever enough to screw up in an interesting way....
• glass tty: /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas ti'tee/ n. A terminal that has a display screen but which
  because of hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both...
• glass tty /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas ti'tee/ n. A terminal that has a display screen but which
  because of hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both...
• mart terminal n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to.
  The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term and the product it describes semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote server's storage, using local devices as displays....
• mart terminal: n. 1. A terminal that has enough computing capability to render graphics or to offload some kind of front-end processing from the computer it talks to.
  The development of workstations and personal computers has made this term and the product it describes semi-obsolescent, but one may still hear variants of the phrase `act like a smart terminal' used to describe the behavior of workstations or PCs with respect to programs that execute almost entirely out of a remote {server}'s storage, using said devices as displays....