Combined with clients of limited capability, cloud computing becomes broadly similar to client-server computing over a LAN using dumb terminals or once-vogue thin clients.

通过综合功能有限的客户机，云计算在很大程度上类似于借助LAN的客户机-服务器计算，使用了哑(dumb)终端或曾经十分流行的瘦客户机。

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They are not much different than the 1970s-era dumb terminals that dialed by modem to connect with mainframe computers.

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Maybe the device itself is new, but it only replaced something that worked the same way, just like those dumb terminals.

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The device can also handle streaming audio and video, a huge improvement over the old dumb terminals and critical for the high-bandwidth future.

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