Thin Clients

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 06:31:11PM -0500, John Esak wrote:
> 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.

Sure.

But the last time I checked, no one has a thinterm for anything less
than close to $500, which is enough higher than a real PC to force the
cost-benefit analysis; terminals, used, are maybe, what, $100?  Less?

And it happens he already has them.

Cheers
-- jra
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