Dumb terminal
<hardware> A type of
terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected.
A dumb terminal, in contrast to an
intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or
auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device.
The dumbest kind of terminal is a
glass tty.
The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an
intelligent terminal.
Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
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