Re: Virtual (was: RFC, draft 1)

Klaus Johannes Rusch (e8726057@student.tuwien.ac.at)
Tue, 19 Nov 1996 23:00:15 CET


In <9611180642.AA20515@xenodata.com>, bbh@xenodata.com writes:
> I don't want to be the language guy, but I have a problem with the term "virtual
> server". Everyone knows what it means, so it has the benefit of clarity, but I
> don't believe the term is accurate.

Accurate or not from a language point of view, it's the term commonly used :-)

> I have to believe that a server that returns a response to a request does exist
> in fact and form. If one process is able to change identity based on the request
> it receives, that does not make it less real.

Might be interesting what the people who coined the term had in mind.

Klaus Johannes Rusch

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