Client (computing)
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In computing, a client is a piece of computer hardware or software that accesses a service made available by a server as part of the client–server model of computer networks. The server is often on an
A thin-client computer
Diskless node
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A diskless node is a workstation or personal computer without disk drives, which employs network booting to load its operating system from a server.
Client (computing)
…were clients of the time-sharing mainframe computer. In one classification, client computers and devices are either thick clients, thin clients, or diskless nodes. A thick client, also known as a rich client or fat client, is a client that performs the bulk of any data processing operations itself, and does not…
A Sun-2/50 diskless workstation from Sun-2 series
The Carry-I book-size LAN station was an early diskless system based on an Intel 80286 processor and produced by Taiwan's Flytech Technology circa 1991.