Another possible meaning although not really a dumb terminal could be
what is commonly referred to as an X terminal.  Which is a very simple
and usually slow computer that doesn't have a hard drive and runs X from
a remote server.  Brian Cluff has this working for the school with P75s
as the clients and it seems pretty cool and faster than I would expect.

Eric

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Alan Dayley wrote:

> If you want to use Linux, this is the right place to talk about it.
>
> Now, as to your question, I think more detail is needed before it can be
> properly answered.  Here are some questions I have that would guide me to
> help answer:
>
> - By "dumb terminal" do you mean a monitor, keyboard and mouse that accepts
> serial input from a serial connection?  Dumb terminals originally meant a
> keyboard and screen that only had enough "brains" to display a serial data
> stream and send a stream back.  They did not even have mice.  Is this what
> you are wanting to create?
> - Are you saying you want to build a dumb terminal using Linux as the OS in
> the terminal?
> - What are the dumb terminals going to be used for?  What is the application?
>
> The "right" answer is dependent on the end goal.
>
> Alan
>
> At 12:01 PM 10/10/02 -0800, you wrote:
> >This is a bit off subject but I am looking at using Linux as my proposed
> >OS. Can someone direct me to some info on creating dumb terminals from
> >scratch. I am wondering if I need more than a monitor, keyboard, and
> >mouse. Thanks for any help and websites with info or search engines or
> >whatever will get me there. Thanks again,   Cliff
>
>
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