Local area networks are now a part of most businesses and organizations, providing connectivity between computers, printers and other devices and facilitating efficient communications within a ...

What is a client-server environment? Numerous applications run in a client-server architecture. This means that client computers (computers forming part of the network) contact a server that provides ...

The client-server idea goes back at least to the early 1960s and was, at least initially, a fairly direct extension of hardware co-processor ideas already in wide use throughout the industry. Thus the ...