For users, a chat application seems to be a classic P2P application. You send a message to the chat room, and all users that take part at the chat receive the message. So far, you have learned ...

IP tools, when used properly, can help system builders tackle set-up and configuration chores, speed troubleshooting and problems resolution, and address all kinds of security issues and concerns. A ...

Client-server is a relationship in which one program, the client, requests a service or resource from another program, the server. The label client-server was previously used to distinguish ...

* Extracts from the first edition not yet updated. The UDP (User Datagram) protocol is very different from the more usual TCP (Transmission Control Protocol ...

Version 5.x of LabVIEW introduces a number of interprocess communication methods, which is discussed below. All of them, however, follow a similar pattern of use; creation of a refnum, writing or ...

I had a front row seat at Microsoft to watch the first two application model transitions. Early mainframe and minicomputer systems were monolithic, with data storage, application code, and terminal ...