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I can give some examples of my grid.

A big benefit to having a dedicated file server is = that no matter what "terminal" I sit at, I always see the same de= sktop and files.  I can sit at my desk with drawterm on a Linux workst= ation, or in bed with drawterm on a Windows laptop, or using a raspberry pi= as a bare metal 9Front terminal. 

C= PU server doesn't have to mean number crunching.  I have a raspber= ry pi cpu server that has a sensors hooked to it, and runs a file system to= send commands to smart lights.  And another that has sensors and disp= lays simple data using an led grid.  I made a kind of router using an = old Dell and a used 4 port nic, and it is technically a cpu server, in that= it has no monitor or keyboard and boots off the file server. 
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As a learning experience, having separate file/c= pu/terminal is nice because you can actually practice integrating them on a= network.  However, if you are trying to do this out of a university d= orm, then I could see things being so cramped that running a bunch of compu= ters to kind of do 1 thing would seem overly complicated.
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