Whenever you use an ATM to check your balance or withdraw some money, you are actually participating in a client-server interaction with a computer on your bank's network. A client-server network ...

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 ...

Software that runs in the user's computer. Contrast with "server program," which runs in a server in the network. See client and server. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

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 ...