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To: The Prophet who wrote (32262)	10/17/1999 6:01:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Prophet, <Or could there be a point where no RAM is required because the dumb terminal has become almost just a receiver of information?> You always need DRAM. Even so-called dumb terminals will need memory local to the terminal to hold some sort of operating system, not to mention a local copy of the application it's running, the data the application needs to manipulate, etc. Moving everything onto the server is an idea that was already a hot topic years ago, but died because of its shortcomings and because the price of PCs dropped to the point where dumb terminals no longer made any sense cost-wise. Tenchusatsu