Thin client computing, centralized computing, controller based computing, server based computing: there are several names for the architecture that allows a client device to exchange data with a host with minimal processing at the client level. Although over the years there have been shifts from thin client to thick client and back again, the rationale for the shifts is typically the same. Clients become thicker with increasing bandwidth and processor power. They become thinner as new transmission media decreases bandwidth and portability of devices decreases processing power.
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