Define the terms, terminal and thin client. List the advantages of a thin client.

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Define the terms, terminal and thin client. List the advantages of a thin client.

 

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Terminal and thin client

• Terminal client:

Name of the terminal according to which that terminal is identified by the client. The client passes terminal name is case sensitive.

The terminal client supports a multiuser user interface with the central computer. To govern terminal client service uses Microsoft’s remote desktop protocol (RDP).

• Thin client:

The thin client is generally referred to as clients or software which is used by the computers to serve the client-server architecture.

Thin client computers are Net PCs and network computers. And it is considered a computer network without a hard disk drive.

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