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In article <Bvo9L5.3GI@solbourne.com>, imp@solbourne.com (Warner Losh) writes:
|> In article <1871@sousa.ltn.dec.com> gibian@ljohub.enet.dec.com writes:
|> >Client/Server has been around for quite a while, but most is limited to
|> >file level distribution of computing environment.
|> 
|> X has been around for several years and uses a client server
|> architecture.
|> 
|> Maybe you forgot about it?  Or you want to foget about it....
|> 
|> Warner
|> -- 

 Yeah,, but try to explain that the X Client runs on the network server,
talking to the X server running on a workstation client. 8-}

 Client/Server is at best ill-defined, since it assumes a host/terminal
paradigm, where the client is simply performing some (few) tasks that 
used to be handled by a host. If I place a printer directly on my
ethernet net segment, and I still use terminals connected to a central
host but allow the host to send packets directly to a printer, is this 
C?S computing?

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