Thin Clients

[John Esak]

My Thintermds require no $200 O/S... nor have any volatile memory easily
gottne to by viruses.... my comment is using the serial port on these things
when there is a perfectly good network jack is dumb. And for a terminal that
is no pun intended. I'm all for terminals. And even more so for thinterms.
Don't want to give any wrong impressions.

JE


> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf
> Of Jay R. Ashworth
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 1:30 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: Thin Clients
> 
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:08:07PM -0500, John Esak wrote:
> > Serial... yuck. Only if you have some outdated, legacy device like old
> cash
> > drawers or some such.
> 
> Or, y'know, a bunch of serial terminals that work fine, don't require a
> $200 OS, don't catch viruses...
> 
> Terminals are *vastly* underrated.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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