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Can you explain further? I'm guessing you mean once a mainframe's resources were outdated, it became a terminal?
by my_usernam3 5y ago
Can you explain further? I'm guessing you mean once a mainframe's resources were outdated, it became a terminal?
- Macha 5y agoNo, the users had crappy devices (terminals) which worked because they could access the compute resources of a bigger device (the mainframe)
- Jtsummers 5y agoNo. In the heyday of mainframes people would remote in, with a terminal. That's where the terminal protocols many people still use on a daily basis actually come from. Sending text over the wire to display on your terminal screen, you type into a keyboard which transmits your input across the wire to the mainframe which responds with new screen updates. Using your desktop remotely from a cheaper but more portable device is pretty much the same model (not the same thing, but model) as the way many people interacted with mainframes last century.