On 09/09/2020 15:25, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On 8 Sep 2020 21:10:38 GMT, Charlie Gibbs 
> declaimed the following:
>
>>
>> It's coming full circle, back to the model of the '60s and '70s
>> where users used terminals to access centralized systems.
>
>  It's the third coming... The second was the era of the X-server
> terminal which handled display functions for graphical client programs
> running on the mainframe(s).
>
>
The nature of client server splitting of an application has always been
a fine balance between the cost of processing power and the cost of
bandwidth.
When processing power got cheap, we lost te serial terminal and got the
'personal computer' . Now fibre optic is cheap and the GHz spectrum is
open, we have the personal mobile device or a cloud connected browser in
a desktop.


Today's web browser equipped with Javascript IS a very smart terminal
indeed.


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