Kiosk




A stall set up in a public place where one can obtain information, e.g. tourist information.

The information may be provided by a human or by a computer.

In the latter case, the data may be stored locally (e.g. on CD-ROM) or accessed via a network using some kind of distributed information retreival system such as Gopher or World-Wide Web.



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