Re: Defining Client-Server

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From: Chris Maltby
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 05:08

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In <1992Oct14.122702.24159@samba.oit.unc.edu> dil.admin@mhs.unc.edu (Dave Laudicina) writes:
>>There is clearly a lot more to client-server, but the important concept
>>is partitioning of Processing, Presentation, and Data.

>In article <1992Oct12.165832.10614@devildog.att.com>  writes:
>I think you have given an excellent definition of client server.

I think there's one other point which usually gets lost in the definition;
it's to do with efficiency. The split of processing between server and
client is optimal when it makes minimum demand for both processing and
communications bandwidth. I know the "costing" algorithm is ill defined,
but things which make excessive use of bandwidth (say X Windows) might
have their magic "client-server" status revoked under my test...

Chris
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