From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pool-141-154-213-234.bos.east.verizon.net ([141.154.213.234] helo=localhost.localdomain ident=[X2hTURtlZ8mzG0Sb8s/KfB9fAAuDYboZ]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17AMTW-0001ho-00 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 23:07:42 -0400 Received: (from dave@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4M35ue29681; Tue, 21 May 2002 23:05:56 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: dave set sender to using -f From: "Dave Hunt <" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15595.2836.243431.833933@localhost.localdomain> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 23:05:56 -0400 (EDT) To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: interesting experiment. In-Reply-To: <013d01c20139$57f346c0$af49e9d5@microsoft.com> References: <02d201c1ffa8$c3b03c20$bd49e9d5@microsoft.com> <15593.34397.166462.327355@localhost.localdomain> <013d01c20139$57f346c0$af49e9d5@microsoft.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Reply-To: dave.hunt2@verizon.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Well, simply-put, it's a similar notion. Difference is, the 'ports' the program listens on are within the same machine as the requests. In the case of a 'server' such as eflite, the communication is between processes, not client and server machines across a network. I understand the Windows 2000 kernel has a similar "message-passing" scheme, but the user is carfully-insulated from such minutii:-). -Dave Octavian Rasnita writes: > BTW. Regarding servers. Please tell me what it is a server, or better said > what does it do?