2007-04-23 00:08:55 · 5 answers · asked by the choosen1 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
"Terminal" refers to a station in a central computer system. The processor sits in a central location, and a terminal has keyboard and a screen so people can access the processor and the programs that run on it.
2007-04-23 00:13:04 · answer #1 · answered by FCabanski 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that is used for entering data into, and displaying data from, a computer or a computing system. Typically it provides a text terminal interface over a serial line.
2007-04-23 07:15:29 · answer #2 · answered by mindreader 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the early days, people used a terminal to connect to a mainframe computer. All it had was a keyboard, a screen and a cable connected to the main computer and it couldn't do anything else.
2007-04-23 07:15:32 · answer #3 · answered by ELfaGeek 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
terminal means the other end of a connection. it can refer to whole hardware that is connected a resource (client to server). these days, terminal are used to call softwares that function to enter input and display processing result from a distant resource. your browser is a terminal to a web server in the Internet, your telnet client is a terminal to a telnet server, your pc is a terminal to whereever it is connected and accessing other terminal/server.
2007-04-23 07:25:09 · answer #4 · answered by eddyg30 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you have a network and there is a server running, the other systems connected to that main system are called terminals...
they themselves will not do anything...
they depend on the server to do their tasks...
2007-04-23 07:13:38 · answer #5 · answered by sathya 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋