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- An intelligent terminal is one which is capable of performing some limited amount of processing on data before transmitting what is beyond their processing abilities to the central computer.
- A dump terminal is one which does not have any of its own processing capabilities/ power. It
relies on the processing capabilities of the central computer that serves it.
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