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Ask HN: How would you describe Bloomberg Terminal to a complete layman?

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Re: Ask HN: How would you describe Bloomberg Terminal to a complete layman?

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The Bloomberg Terminal is an ultrafast dumb machine connected to the best financial information and news system. When I worked there many many years ago, they did not send data to the terminal (think frontend client). Instead, they sent draw commands so that the actual data could not be snooped on.

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