The client/server architecture is intended to provide a scalable architecture, whereby each
computer or process on the network is either a client or a server.
6.2.3 Architectural Alternatives for Client/Server Systems
A client/server system can have several architectural alternatives known as two-tier, three-tier and
multi-tier or n-tier.
Two-tier architecture – A generic client/server architecture has two types of nodes on the network:
clients and servers. As a result, these generic architectures are sometimes referred to as two-tier
architectures. In two-tier client/server architecture, the user system interface ...
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