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Old 10-02-2001, 11:37 AM
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Default The Power of Peer to Peer


Back in the day we had Client / Server. We had dumb terminals tied to a big old mainframe that did all the hard work for us. Then, we got into the world of the PC, where each computer had some computing power of its own and was able to work individually, outside of the mainframe environment. However, as these PC's were integrated in the fabric of business networking, many still adhered to the Client / Server model. But, as time progressed and PC's got more powerful and more capable we began to see the rise of larger and more complicated processing requests on the mainframes. Graphics and 3D modeling became more prevalent thanks to systems from Intergraph and the introduction of AutoCAD and later 3D Studio on the PC. With the introduction and eventual acceptance of Microsoft Windows on the PC platform, mainframes became more and more overloaded. The amount of data being transferred over networks was becoming prohibitive, and it became a real drain to host graphical applications in the Client / Server model.

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