“ One important distinction is client vs. server. ‘Client’ translates as: being lightweight, suppporting only a single user, able to run on small machines, designed to be switched on when needed and off when the user is done, lacking pre-emptive multitasking, optimized for low latency, and putting a lot of its resources into fancy user interfaces. ‘Server’ translates as: being heavyweight, capable of running continuously, optimized for throughput, fully pre-emptively multitasking to handle multiple sessions. In origin all operating systems were server operating systems; the concept of a client operating system only emerged in the late 1970s with inexpensive but underpowered PC hardware. Client operating systems are more focused on a visually attractive user experience than on 24/7 uptime.
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Oleg Andreev
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Author of Gitbox version control app.
Author of CoreBitcoin, a Bitcoin toolkit for Objective-C.
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