I had a front row seat at Microsoft to watch the first two application model transitions. Early mainframe and minicomputer systems were monolithic, with data storage, application code, and terminal ...

Servers tend to be quite powerful machines. They need the processing power because many other computers connect to them. Clients do not usually store data. Furthermore, they have no control over the ...

(1) A communications network that uses dedicated servers. In this context, the term is used to contrast it with a peer-to-peer network, which allows any client to also be a server. (2) A network that ...

A peer-to-peer network is one in which two or more PCs share files and access to devices such as printers without requiring a separate server computer or server software. In its simplest form, a ...