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OCR: MPUTEP GYSTEM ASI 1-7 Figure A typical minicomputer handles proce: sInc tasks for multiple users Terminals ac as each users main input anc output device The terminal has keyboard for inpu and a display screen for ndno but it does you proces the user's dat a Instead processing requests must be transmitted from the teminal to the minicomputer The minicomputer stores data for all the users in one centrali zed Iocation minicomputer is somewhat arger than microcomputer and can carry tno the processing InfoWeb tasks for many users. If you are using minicomputer system, you use terminal to input your processing requests and view the results A terminal is a device with keyboard and screen used for input and but not for processing. Although terminal resembles microcomputer because has and screen, t ...