In the context, it appears to intend "the strict set of what constitutes a terminal to access external storage".
But of course, even in the context of the cloud a DB does not (necessarily?) replace a FS, and, more fundamentally, that which the poster presented looks more like a sociologistic presentation of trends (or, "big ideas" for the salesforce), oblivious of the absiological ground that "progress is not in decreased freedom", while the presented model is that of crippled machine (wanting to store locally is a basicmost demand).
In the context, it appears to intend "the strict set of what constitutes a terminal to access external storage".
But of course, even in the context of the cloud a DB does not (necessarily?) replace a FS, and, more fundamentally, that which the poster presented looks more like a sociologistic presentation of trends (or, "big ideas" for the salesforce), oblivious of the absiological ground that "progress is not in decreased freedom", while the presented model is that of crippled machine (wanting to store locally is a basicmost demand).
Terminal + mainframe. Everything new is well forgotten old)
Perhaps a browser(i.e Chrome)
Something like Chrome OS, I would imagine.
Probably referring to a dumb client.