Revision as of 13:49, 26 January 2025 edit Stevebroshar (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 5,251 edits →Contemporary: It's not great to start with "thing A is not thing B" it's awkward; and it implies that not being B is important somehow; I assume it's important here since the IBM PC 'looked like' a terminal; and it's not not a terminal bc it has a graphics card; it's about server interaction ← Previous edit		Revision as of 13:55, 26 January 2025 edit undo Stevebroshar (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 5,251 edits →Contemporary: edit for clarity Next edit →
Line 235: Even though the early [[IBM Personal Computer\|IBM PC]] looked somewhat like a terminal with a green [[monochrome monitor]], it is not classified a terminal since it provides local computing instead of interacting with a server at a character level. With [[terminal emulator]] software, a PC can, however, provide the function of a terminal to interact with a mainframe or minicomputer. Eventually, personal computers greatly reduced market demand for conventional terminals. In and around the 1990s ~~especially~~, "''thin ~~clients"~~client'' and [[X terminal]]s ~~have~~technology combined the relatively economical local processing power with central, shared computer facilities to ~~retain some of the~~leverage advantages of terminals over personal computers:. Today, most PC [[telnet]] clients provide emulation of the most common terminal,{{cn\|date=April 2024}} the DEC VT100, using the [[ANSI escape code]] standard X3.64, or could run as X terminals using software such as [[Cygwin/X]] under [[Microsoft Windows]] or [[X.Org Server]] software under Linux.

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