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Networking overview

Distributed user applications

User applications usually consist of executable programs (binaries and scripts), support files (such as error message and language libraries), and data storage files or directories. Stand-alone applications operate on a single computer, with the binaries executing on the local CPU and on libraries and application data stored on the local hard disk.
Network applications, on the other hand, make use of the filesharing and file-copying capabilities of the network to:

In most cases, the user is unaware that the program or data access is over the network.

The key enabling technologies for distributed user applications are the supported network protocol stacks and filesharing capabilities such as NFS filesystems.

Your SCO OpenServer system provides these applications, which can be configured to operate locally or, with the Desktop or Enterprise systems, over the network:


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