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Article #66Re: scared customers
From: Dave Laudicina
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 13:04
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 13:04
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In article <1992Oct5.173444.24966@meaddata.com> news@meaddata.com (Usenet Administrator) writes: >In article <DWF.92Oct5092154@hope.acl.lanl.gov>, dwf@acl.lanl.gov (David W. Forslund) writes: >|> workstation world for 5-10 years. I believe the workstation world now >|> is moving more to peer-peer computing in a truly distributed manner. >|> Client/server has difficulty scaling to large numbers of systems and >|> is most appropriate for systems in which the server is much more >|> powerful than the client. >|> >|> -- >|> David Forslund > >If I take a look at OSF's DCE, or Sun's DOE and DOMF, it seems to me >that the world is indeed going to a client-server paradigm, away from >peer-peer. These client-server systems are supposed to scale to many >millions of machines and many millions of users. What do you have in >mind when you say: > > "I believe the workstation world now is moving more to > peer-peer computing in a truly distributed manner." > >I find that very hard to believe. > >-Srivas. > Also ask any two people what client server and peer to peer means
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Newsgroups: comp.client-server Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!destroyer!gatech!concert!samba!usenet From: dil.admin@mhs.unc.edu (Dave Laudicina) Subject: Re: scared customers Message-ID: <1992Oct6.130450.8299@samba.oit.unc.edu> Sender: usenet@samba.oit.unc.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: dil.adp.unc.edu Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:04:50 GMT Lines: 25