(2) A network that is processing applications designed for client/server architecture. See client/server. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

Users could access this centralized computer only by means of dumb terminals. (See Figure 1.) Figure 1. Mainframe Architecture In the 1980s, the arrival of inexpensive network-connected PCs produced ...

An architecture in which the user's PC or mobile device (the client) is the requesting machine and the server is the supplying machine, both of which are connected via a local area network (LAN ...