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- From: gintsu@pisces.acns.nwu.edu (Ginstu)
- Subject: Formal definition of a server?
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- Organization: Northwestern University
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:50:52 GMT
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- There seems to be a great deal of diversity regarding the definition of a
- server. The term "Client Server Computing" has definitely been bastardized
- by the fashion rags of the industry. Certainly the definition of a server
- must be sensitive to the give context, but there must be some common ground
- that encompasses the essence of a server. So lets get to it! What the
- hell is a server? What type of behavior is common to all types of servers?
- What are the different types of servers (i.e. connection, connectionless,
- statefull, stateless, database, compute, etc.)?
-
- Thanx
- gintsu@pisces.acns.nwu.edu
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