Doris' Year-End Blog Post. I canât believe another year is coming to an end -- and what a year itâs been! Although Iâm usually not too thrilled about celebrating my birthday, you all have made my entire 90 th year so special with your love and support for the precious babies. Here are just a few of the highlights ...
A Windows terminal is a dummy terminal that has the sole purpose of running Windows applications on it. It is linked to a Windows NT server via local network. The Windows Terminal does not do anything other than display data and take input from the user; the server handles all the threads and underlying processes.
Why use the terminal? Under Linux there are GUIs (graphical user interfaces), where you can point and click and drag, and hopefully get work done without first reading lots of documentation. The traditional Unix environment is a CLI (command line interface), where you type commands to tell the computer what to do.