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To: QwikSand who wrote (4)	7/24/1999 6:56:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20

The gist of the idea is to keep processing power/control on the client side where it's the cheapest and provides the greatest benefit to the actual users of the system. Servers in this model are intelligent remote disks with a large cache and support for a minimal protocol stack; TCP + possibly a DB or other i/o type protocol. Regarding loading of applications/patches etc that would obviously be done from a remote disk to local disk update. A local probe (or mounter) would probe the available remote disks (or remote resources) and provide a tree view of them. Cheers James