There are many ways to describe a database: the role it plays in a distributed architecture, the various internal components ... of database designs sketched out in an ERD diagram. Client applications ...

Users could access this centralized computer only by means of dumb terminals. (See Figure 1.) Figure 1. Mainframe Architecture ... running in the client machine which interacts with the server—most ...

An architecture ... client/server variation; however, the term is no longer widely used. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was a hot buzzword as business applications migrated from central ...

Users could run their own applications and still access the central computer as required (see terminal emulation). By the 1990s, "client/server" architecture began to replace terminal access.