Please feel free to use what I wrote about servers in any way you
like. If you want to use it in am
Encyclopedia article it needs to be edited to remove the first person references
and written in the third person.
Allowance needs to be made for the fact that the Encyclopedia will be
read as some indefinite time in the future.
I tried to write this as an introductory explanation of what servers are
and what they do. It would seem
silly to a person who spends all day working with servers but most computer
users understand little about servers.
You may find information
about servers in ”howstuffworks” on the Internet.
Most people who work with
computers don't know much about electronics. They would not know what I was
talking about if I described a circuit board using an LM3900N quad comparator
which could choose which one of 4 outposts to actuate depending on the value of
the resistor connected to the input.
They would not know anything about operational amplifiers. They would not know that LM stands for
linear monolithic or what that means.
I am a life member of IEEE,
a life member of Computer Society, and subscribe to Dr. Dobbs Journal but most
people never heard of them. They
give me access to a vast amount of technical information but I have made little
use of it.
When I get the time. I would
like to write Encyclopedia articles on many subjects: Rose of Sharon, Jesse
Ramsden, Queen Christiana of Sweden, Count Rumsford, William Strutt, vitamin
B12, screws and a long list of other subjects. I would need to look and see what is
already in the Encyclopedia.
I started collecting
information about vitamin B12 after I was diagnosed as having pernicious anemia,
which is easily treated.
Merritt L. Perkins