Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!husc6!linus!encore!bzs From: bzs@encore.UUCP (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: Bugs in NeWs documentation (really: terminology confusing to novices) Message-ID: <3500@encore.UUCP> Date: 20 Aug 88 21:43:02 GMT Article-I.D.: encore.3500 References: <1327@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> <20102@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Marlboro, MA Lines: 23 In-reply-to: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu's message of 16 Aug 88 19:11:04 GMT What's the confusion here? Server: something which provides a resource, such as a piece of hardware. Disk servers provide disks, window servers provide screens. Servers might abstract their resources, NFS makes disks look like file systems, NeWS/X make screens look like window systems. Client: something which uses these resources by indirect requests to the server. Disk clients use other's disks, window clients use other's screens. Servers control the resources (eg. can refuse service, ensure security and integrity in general.) Servers can run w/o clients, clients are meaningless w/o servers and generally just exit(1) immediately or loop looking for them. -Barry Shein, ||Encore||