On Jan 13,  8:39pm, Jeffrey Ohlmann wrote:
>On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Mark Andres wrote:
>> First of all, to set the "standard" X terminology straight, an X *server*
>> is the machine that drives the display. In your case, the Macintosh
>> running MI/X is the X *server*. You can the run X *clients* from any
>> machine that can connect to the X *server*. 
>
>How did this horrible reversal of vocabulary occur?  It seems predestined
>to cause confusion in this present age of "client-server" architectures. 
>I think we need a popular decree "normalizing" the X nomenclature.  It's
>like saying I own a 1995 Honda Highway and it drives me on the car.

You have to think in terms of the _resources_ being served.  A file server
serves storage space.  When you run programs on a server, it's serving CPU
time, etc.  An X server serves the display resource.  It's all perfectly
logical and correct.

~Steve

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