Terminal hardware can be divided into two parts the keyboard which is used to for input medium and video screen which is useful as an output medium combination of this two termed as VDU.
Terminals are of two types
- dumb terminal
- intelligent terminal
Dumb terminal :: It can have microprocessor inside it and Limited memory it is responsible for basic input and output of characters it is called dumb because it does no processing on the input characters
Intelligent terminal ::
The terminal do processing up so it requires more powerful hardware and software for it
