Re: What is a Server? (Was "FTP Datahub Question")

2010-02-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 02/24/2010 at 09:49 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: >Size doesn't matter? For example, consider X11, where the terms are >widely misused. Likewise SMTP. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see We don't care

Re: What is a Server? (Was "FTP Datahub Question")

2010-02-26 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave > > > I have "client" and "server" address spaces running in the same LPAR > :) > Among others, we run CICS MRO :)) In our shop CICS concurrently is a terminal "server", a web service provider and requ

Re: What is a Server? (Was "FTP Datahub Question")

2010-02-25 Thread George Henke
formation Technology Services > Washington State University > > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > > Behalf Of Howard Brazee > > Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 1:23 PM > > To: IBM-MAIN

Re: What is a Server? (Was "FTP Datahub Question")

2010-02-25 Thread Gibney, Dave
ama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Howard Brazee > Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 1:23 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: What is a Server? (Was "FTP Datahub Question") > > On 24 Feb 2010 07:26:51 -0800, charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) wrote: > > >No, no

Re: What is a Server? (Was "FTP Datahub Question")

2010-02-24 Thread George Henke
Kinda like Primary LU and Secondary LU in SNA lingo. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Howard Brazee wrote: > On 24 Feb 2010 07:26:51 -0800, charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) wrote: > > >No, no, no. It is not productive that the mainframe veterans have one > >definition for server and the rest of t

Re: What is a Server? (Was "FTP Datahub Question")

2010-02-24 Thread Howard Brazee
On 24 Feb 2010 07:26:51 -0800, charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) wrote: >No, no, no. It is not productive that the mainframe veterans have one >definition for server and the rest of the world has a different one. Server >is a computer science architectural term. It has nothing to do with the size >

Re: What is a Server?

2010-02-24 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) writes: > Yes, I know everyone is defensive because a fad usually referred to as > "client/server" cost a lot of us our jobs about

Re: What is a Server? (Was "FTP Datahub Question")

2010-02-24 Thread Chris Mason
Paul > Size doesn't matter? For example, consider X11, where the terms are widely misused. I have X11 clients on z/OS communicating with an X11 server on my laptop (with an Intel chip). You don't get away with that one! "X windows" is the example of "client- server" that teachers use in order t

Re: What is a Server? (Was "FTP Datahub Question")

2010-02-24 Thread Chris Mason
Charles > No, no, no ... I trust you read the whole of my post and noticed that I became irritated by this *misuse* of the word. It may have been more than irritated actually - tempered finally by my having to point out to these good security people that they had managed to get hold of some in

Re: What is a Server? (Was "FTP Datahub Question")

2010-02-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:25:59 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >> any computer that doesn't sit on or under someone's desk can be called a >"server" > >No, no, no. It is not productive that the mainframe veterans have one >definition for server and the rest of the world has a different one. Server >is a

What is a Server? (Was "FTP Datahub Question")

2010-02-24 Thread Charles Mills
> any computer that doesn't sit on or under someone's desk can be called a "server" No, no, no. It is not productive that the mainframe veterans have one definition for server and the rest of the world has a different one. Server is a computer science architectural term. It has nothing to do with