>>105895193
Terminals connect to a mainframe and are primitive machines that typically only output CLI/Text. Most offices that want to use that kind of model where the IT infrastructure is centrally managed use thin clients and virtual desktops.
>>105895889
What the hell are you people talking about? Comeback? Thin clients, which are the modern iteration of terminals, are already quite popular in office settings. When used with centralized Virtual Desktop Infrastructure they are so much better to maintain from a hardware maintenance standpoint because you are not sitting there praying that the fucking desktop doesn't decide to die and take all the files, which makes executives and Stacy the Office Bimbo go REEEE. Instead, everything is on SharePoint, OneDrive, A RAID backed network drive, or something with more resilience, so if the thin client fries you just hand them a new one and RMA the old unit on the back end. And you can just hand them a new virtual desktop if you use instant clones if they somehow manage to fuck those up. And that's on premises VDI. I haven't worked on shit like Azure or Vmware DaaS.
>>105895172
Not 100%. as
>>105895182 mentioned they blur the line because they have storage and you can download programs and Play Store apps, but the software ecosystem is geared towards G-Suite and cloud.
