Chuma Agbodike wrote in a message to LEE ARONER:
 CA> Can I tell the NT to run the program on the server's memory
 CA> instead of mine? Thus the "definition of application server"
 CA> Because then I wont need a fast computer as a 3rd station
 CA> for my wife who does only WP. A simple 386 with 2 meg ram or
 CA> so but a good monitor. 
This is hard to do with NT, but it is common practice with Unix.  For 
example, an X/Windows program expects to talk to its terminal over a network 
connection, even when the program and its terminal are actually on the same 
machine (as they usually are).  However, you can split them so that an 
X/Windows program runs on a fast machine somewhere and talks over a real 
network to a slower X/Windows terminal, which is what you want to do.
Under Unix, by the way, the X/Windows nomenclature is reversed from what you 
might expect.  The X/Windows program running on the fast machine is the 
"client" which requests services from the X/Windows terminal "server" on the 
slower machine.  This is just a peculiarity of terminology that applies only 
to X/Windows, where the server is the user side because the terminal performs 
drawing services on the screen for the client program.
To get this kind of capability with NT, you need expensive add-on packages 
such as Citrix.
 
-- Mike
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