Personal Computers Terminal Program

What we have forgotten, in our attachment to and dependence on our little personal computer, is that there is a way of programming it so that it will act as a terminal to connect us with a giant supercomputer. This supercomputer runs far faster than our personal computer, has an enormous memory full of vital facts ordinarily unknown to us, and uses two... 

These days, in the age of personal computers, data input is invariably done by typing the data onto the terminal screen. This may be while the modeling program is actually... 

The advent of personal computers and terminal emulation programs has reduced the cost of high quality graphics displays by almost an order of magnitude and probably the majority of users of these public systems now use this type of equipment. 

Personal Computers. IBM PC s (personal computers) and clones with the MS-DOS operating system have become a popular microcomputing environment for the chemical/pharmaceutical industry. Many software products are available for this system including MDL s ChemText chemical word processor, ChemBase chemical database, and ChemTalk terminal program, ORACLE S RDBMS, and BBN s RS/1 statistics program. 

Nearly everyone who has heard about computers has heard about the BASIC language. Many of these people can read and write simple programs in BASIC. Note that, in 1964, long before personal computers or display terminals, one entered a program by typing (as now) and the computer responded by typing back onto yellow paper (rather than displaying results on a screen) ... 

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