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I think this should be turned into basically a "character-cell vs. block-oriented terminals" article, because most of the information would be duplicated among two separate articles. Basically the description of each is short: the interesting part is how they compare and what they're each good for. I can't think of a good name offhand though. Character-cell and block-oriented terminals? --Delirium 13:26, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

web browsers equated to terminals?

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That calls for some substantial reliable sources pointing out that web browsers might be mistaken for a terminal by people who are unfamiliar with either TEDickey (talk) 00:40, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

SPLAT shrugs SPLAT it's obvious to me, but if you want some sources, I'll try to find some. Like I pointed out on your talk page, I have no problems being reverted, but you could've stated the real reason in your summary when doing so. 85.207.110.58 (talk) 07:08, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
There's an obvious inheritance, just like the inheritance of CGI programming from CICS, but rather than a simple "see also" link, maybe a sentence or two in a section called something like "legacy." Peter Flass (talk) 11:32, 15 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]