Client/server computing was a technology ahead of its time—and more importantly ahead of the enterprise network infrastructure capabilities of the time.

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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 ...

Whenever you connect two computers together, either with cables or wirelessly, you have created a computer network. When the computers on the network can work independently of each other, it is ...

Client-server networks are best suited to organisations with many computers, or to situations where many computers need access to the same information. Many schools use this type of model.

This computer becomes the ‘server’ in the client/server arrangement, and once configured it allows access to all the FANUC CNC systems that are on the plant network. FASConnect is a software program ...

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