How many of you know that the team is working on something that no-one wants?

Re:How many of you know that the team is working on somethin... by naniwaduni on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @02:55AM (#23536596)

I might be totally off the mark here, but in context I assumed the contrast was with doing all work on a thick "client". A client-server architecture in principle lets you run thinner clients and offload the heavy work, but in practice the network would've been expensive.

A modern analogue might be something like premature distributed computing.

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Re:How many of you know that the team is working on somethin... by noizejoy on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @04:14AM (#23536947)

If my memory serves me right, distributed computing was the advent of smaller computers (back then often called mini computers like DEC Vax or IBM AS/400, but those were more like smaller mainframes, still using dumb terminals as frontends.

But you’re right in saying that the original client/server had all of the UI and business logic on a very fat client - and the server only served the data over very low bandwith networks.

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Re:How many of you know that the team is working on somethin... by Throwaway111117 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @03:13AM (#23536667)

Maybe rather than:

A modern analogue might be something like premature distributed computing

A modern analogue might be n, where n is more familiar to the composer of this, or, the source of information determining the production of this text is most familiar with n, where n does not include the word premature

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