Servers and clients are the building blocks of computer networks Client-server networking grew in popularity during the 1990s ...

How much work should a client device do, and how much should the server do? (Image from Answers.Com, originally created by Originetics Inc.) The balance has gone back-and-forth for two decades now, ...

(1) A communications network that uses dedicated servers. In this context, the term is used to contrast it with a peer-to-peer network, which allows any client to also be a server. (2) A network that ...

Our 2003 Windows terminal client server can connect with any Windows client via the Internet – it provides connection, sound and printing services back to the client. We have a Linux client that we ...

Old computer systems were very easy to understand. You would simply enter data into your workstation and it would be fed to the mainframe computer. Called a master/slave system, the mainframe master ...

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