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Dumb Terminal -- A Fatal Case Of Stupidity.
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dumb terminal -- a fatal case of stupidity.
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Fatal stupidity with firearms is Darwinism at work.
This computer is: a) not smart enough to be artificially intellige
and b) not stupid enough to be a dumb terminal....
It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance.
-- gavin@krypton.sgi.com...
You have literary talent that you should take pains to develop.
On second thought, in your case, the pains might be fatal....
dumb terminal n. A terminal that is one step above a glass tty, having a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by a smart 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....
dumb terminal: n. A terminal that is one step above a {glass tty}, having a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by a {smart 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....
Dumb Terminal - doesn't understand what you're trying to get it to do.
Intelligent Terminal - one that does understand what you're trying to do, but is clever enough to screw up in an interesting way....
glass tty: /glas T-T-Y/ or /glas ti'tee/ n. A terminal that has a display screen but which
because of hardware or software limitations, behaves like a teletype or some other printing terminal, thereby combining the disadvantages of both...