Asbjorn Hojmark wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
 AH> Actually, the nomenclature is quite consistent. The client is always the
 AH> program requesting a service of the server program. This may seem 
trange
 AH> to people used to pcs but that's because, in Unix, everything's a 
rver.
 MB> I use Unix, I like Unix, but even I'm not foolish enough to give it high
 MB> marks for consistency.
 AH> I didn't write Unix was consistent. (To make me say that
 AH> would be rather expensive). What I meant was that the
 AH> client/server terminology used in X is quite consistent with
 AH> other uses of those phrases.
 AH> 'The client' is the program (system) requesting a service of
 AH> the program (system) fullfilling that request ('the
 AH> server'). The terms client and server doesn't necessarily
 AH> have anything to do with where the user or data is. 
The notion that the user sits at the "server" and the shared remote machine 
where the program is really running is the "client" is, while sensible within 
its own conventions in the Unix world, totally alien to everyone else.
 
-- Mike
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