Hi Mike,
In a message of  to Chuma Agbodike (1:102/803), you 
wrote:
 MB> Under Unix, by the way, the X/Windows nomenclature is reversed from what
 MB> you might expect.  The X/Windows program running on the fast machine is
 MB> the "client" which requests services from the X/Windows terminal 
server"
 MB> on the slower machine.  This is just a peculiarity of terminology that
 MB> applies only to X/Windows, where the server is the user side because the
 MB> terminal performs drawing services on the screen for the client program.
Actually, the nomenclature is quite consistent. The client is always the 
program requesting a service of the server program. This may seem strange to 
people used to pcs but that's because, in Unix, everything's a server.
Mvh, Asbjorn Hojmark 
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