[Wikipedia-l] Servers

[Merritt L. Perkins]

          Server
          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
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