Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > In fact i'm not amazed if you soon call every windows machine a server, > because it runs 'services' that are clear server services.
this is very true of most machienes i use (within windows networking). they all run file sharing, as part of windows, which means they are servers by definition. but if you categorise into intended purpose like: PCs, workstations, thin clients, servers, nodes, it is not a server because thats not it's purpose as a whole. it is a PC, and part of it being my PC is that it has to be able to share my files so i can get them elsewhere. so yea it is a server, some of the time, but most windows (mainstreem 9x, and nt, which XP is part of) are not used for this purpose of being a server at all, they are mainly desktop PCs. likewise linux, unix, and any other OS can be called any of the above. it depends on how you use it. -- matt jones, this e-mail has been virus scanned, sent from a workstation called: matts, IP address: 10.64.63.17, Subnet Mask: 255.255.192.1 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
