Remote Terminals
Today, most networks connect two or more computers, but it's also possible to use your computer as a remote terminal (a keyboard and screen) to operate another computer that might be located in the next room or halfway around the world. Computers using terminal emulator programs send commands from your computer's keyboard to a distant system, and they display data from the distant computer on your computer's screen. You can connect to another computer as a remote terminal through a LAN, through a dial-up telephone line, or through the Internet.
For example, Figure 2-11 shows the login sequence from a remote terminal program connected to The Well, a text-based online community that runs on a Unix host computer in Sacramento, California. ...
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