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unusual facts about thin client



CICS

In 1980, IBM executives failed to heed Ben Riggins' strong suggestions that IBM should provide their own EBCDIC-based operating system and integrated-circuit microprocessor chip for use in the IBM Personal Computer as a CICS intelligent terminal (instead of the incompatible Intel chip, and immature ASCII-based Microsoft 1980 DOS).

Ndiyo

It is developing an ultra-thin client called nivo (network in, video out) based on Ubuntu Linux and other open-source software for use especially in third world countries.

Network performance

Cloud gaming is a type of online gaming where the entire game is hosted on a game server in a data center, and the user is only running a thin client locally that forwards game controller upstream to the game server.

RFB protocol

RFB was originally developed at Olivetti Research Laboratory (ORL) as a remote display technology to be used by a simple thin client with ATM connectivity called a Videotile.

WBT

Windows Based Terminal, a thin client device (sometimes also known as a Windows Interface Device, or WID), generally using Citrix ICA or Remote Desktop Protocol to display a Windows desktop served up by a Citrix server.

Web application

Web applications are popular due to the ubiquity of web browsers, and the convenience of using a web browser as a client, sometimes called a thin client.


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Wolfenstein: Ray Traced

That image is sent to a thin-client (small laptop) over Gigabit Ethernet.