dumb terminal in a sentence

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1. "Dumb terminals " are screens and keyboards that are supported by servers and mainframes, and have no storage or processing power.
2. In the meantime, IBM is pushing its own NC to replace its dumb terminal which can also link to the Internet.
3. Estimates of the number of dumb terminals in use range as high as 30 million, compared with 250 million PCs worldwide.
4. Apparently, according to these two visionaries, the Internet will turn our smart, independent Windows 95 and NT clients into dumb terminals.
5. The TAS system soon was succeeded by the EVE system; more powerful and taking advantage of early-model PCs and dumb terminals.
6. Word processing was available either on dumb terminals like the PT25, PT45 and PST100, or on the partially intelligent PT65 terminal.
7. This turned a PC into a multiuser machine capable of supporting multiple concurrent users using dumb terminals attached by serial ports.
8. Each dumb terminal was connected to a session running up to 8 concurrent DOS virtual machines, all running on the host computer.
9. Now the hand-helds act as dumb terminals; patient information is immediately sent to the servers for storage and the hand-helds'memories are cleared.
10. A terminal that depends on the host computer for its processing power is called a " dumb terminal " or thin client.