Administrators like the idea of centrally administering their client workstations. Unfortunately, the physical resources of the client workstation (such as the disk, framebuffer and the like) are ...

The computer's master control program. When a computer is turned on, a small "boot program" loads the operating system. Although additional system modules may be loaded as needed, the main part, known ...

The growth and popularity of loosely-coupled distributed systems such as the World Wide Web and the touting of Java-based systems as the solution to the issues of software maintenance, flexibility, ...