Well, it has a mouse, so it's more like an X terminal than a plain old serial terminal like a VT220. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_terminal http://en.wikipedi

Well, it has a mouse, so it's more like an X terminal than a plain old serial terminal like a VT220. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_terminal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_terminal -- notice the mouse; working on one of these was "almost" indistinguishable from having a display/kbd/mouse connected directly to the server. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT220 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT220 -- no graphics or mouse here, just CURSES. Back in the 90's X terminals were considered perfectly adequate for most desktop computing tasks (short of CAD, I guess) provided the server was powerful enough. I guess the proliferation of cheap Intel/ Windows boxes was what did them in.