Asbjorn Hojmark wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
 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.
 AH> Actually, the nomenclature is quite consistent. The client
 AH> is always the program requesting a service of the server
 AH> program. This may seem strange to people used to pcs but
 AH> that's because, in Unix, everything's a server.
I use Unix, I like Unix, but even I'm not foolish enough to give it high 
marks for consistency.  One of the creators of Unix was once asked what he 
would have done differently if he had it to do over again, and he responded 
that he would have spelled "create" with an "e."
 
-- Mike
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