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For a while, X terminals were a reasonably popular way to give people comparatively inexpensive X desktops. These X terminals relied on X's network transparency so that only the X server had to run on the X terminal itself, with all of your terminal windows and other programs running on a server somewhere and just displaying on the X terminal. For a long time, using a big server and a lab full of

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クライアント・サーバーモデルで知られるX Window Systemが登場した初期、以外にもX端末はすぐには登場しなかった。初期のXはワークステーション向けで、X端末が登場したのはXが十分に普及した後の1989年頃らしい。