Introduction

• Computing environment timeline

  • 1970’s: time-sharing on mainframes
  • 1980’s: networks of workstations
  • 1990’s: admin costs force return to time-sharing

• Thin-client computing

  • Only GUI part of applications run on terminal
  • Ex: X terminals, WinTerms, Network Computers
  • High-level, API-specific protocols

• Networks are fast enough to send simple pixel encodings with no perf degradation

SLIM: Stateless, Low-level Interface Machine

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