Servers and clients are the building blocks of computer networks Client-server networking grew in popularity during the 1990s ...

The primary function of a client-server system is to create a division of labor between a centralized server and the individual computers that are running your software. This model has a number of ...

TCP wrappers are intended to provide wrapper daemons that can be installed without any changes to existing software. Most TCP/IP applications depend on the client/server model — i.e., when a client ...

eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More Client/server computing was a technology ahead of its ...

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 ...