interesting experiment.

[Dave Hunt <]

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?