Basic Networking Concepts Question:

What are called Fat clients and Fat servers?

Basic Networking Interview Question
Basic Networking Interview Question

Answer:

If the bulk of the application runs on the Client side, then it is Fat clients. It is used for decision support and personal software.
If the bulk of the application runs on the Server side, then it is Fat servers. It tries to minimize network interchanges by creating more abstract levels of services.


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