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Article: Thin Client and Internet Computing.
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- Health Management Technology
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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Thin client computing has come a long way from the days of monochrome monitors displaying text-based UNIX programs. Today's thin clients have the ability to use the same graphic-based applications that PC workstations use. And with the emergence of the World Wide Web, application service providers (ASP) offer a new type of thin client network that uses the Internet as its backbone, running applications from servers owned and operated by third-party vendors.
While the deployment of modern thin client networks has evolved dramatically, the theory behind this type of computing has remained relatively unchanged. Whether utilizing traditional thin clients or the ASP ...