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What is Thin Clients

Chapter 737
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
Do not contain the same central processing unit, hard drive, random access memory and data stores as a desktop personal computer, instead thin clients rely on host servers to provide the computing resources users require via the web.
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A Review of Virtualisation and Cloud Computing for Higher Education
Eileen O'Donnell (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland) and Liam O'Donnell (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch737
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