

The groundbreaking aspect of the terminal server was its ability to send output from the host to remote terminals. The user interface had its own network protocol and was also known as “x11”. It appeared for the first time in 1984 when the first graphic user interface was developed for the Windows operating system being run on the dominant Unix mainframe computer. What is a terminal server? The term “terminal server” already has a history, and the meaning has changed several times over the years.
