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Because the clients have very little tasks to handle the hardware can be small and cheap. The clients itself are basicly maintaince free. They last longer because they have no moving parts like harddrives. If they break no data is lost since nothing is stored on the client itself. Just swap the client with another one and go back to work. |
An introduction to thin client computing
Thin client computing is around for a long time in the UNIX world. Although the implementation evolved quite a bit the concept the same:
- The clients only take care of the basic functions like display, keyboard, mouse and sound.
- The server does the heavy weightlifting, all the applications run on the server.
Because the clients have very little tasks to handle the hardware can be small and cheap. The clients itself are basicly maintaince free. They last longer because they have no moving parts like harddrives. If they break no data is lost since nothing is stored on the client itself. Just swap the client with another one and go back to work.
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