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Re: scared customers

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From: Dave Laudicina
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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From: dil.admin@mhs.unc.edu (Dave Laudicina)
Subject: Re: scared customers
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