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• 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...
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• y: /T-T-Y/ [UNIX], /tit'ee/ [ITS, but some UNIX people say it this way as well
  his pronunciation is not considered to have sexual undertones] n....
• erminak: /ter'mi-nak`/ [Caltech, ca. 1979] n. Any malfunctioning computer terminal.
  A common failure mode of Lear-Siegler ADM 3a terminals caused the `L' key to produce the `K' code instead...
• y /T-T-Y/, /tit'ee/ n. The latter pronunciation was primarily ITS, but some Unix people say it this way as well
  his pronunciation is not considered to have sexual undertones....
• munching squares: n. A {display hack} dating back to the PDP-1 (ca.
  1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y = X XOR T for successive values of T --- see {HAKMEM} items 146--148) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen....