The Client/Server Model

The Client/Server Model
Basically, the client/server architecture enables an application system to be divided
across multiple platforms that vary in operating systems and hardware. The
client requests services and the server fulfills these requests. The server handles
the data-processing services and provides the processed result to the client. The
client performs the front-end portion of an application, and the server performs
the back-end portion, which is usually more labor intensive.
The front end usually includes the user interface and local data-manipulation
capabilities, and provides the communications mechanisms that can request services
from the server portion of the application.

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