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Laptop—ditto.
File server—Used on networks to hold files and share
processing requests from workstations. Some here, some
on the PC. It’s called client-server networking.
Supercomputer—See Nasa, Berkely, MIT, etc. Kind of
like the W.O.P.R. in Wargames.
Web cluster—A special cloud indicating several web
devices are contained within the cloud.
Web server—Holds the Internet pages of a company.
Microsoft IIS and Apache are common software packages
on these.
Repeater—Layer 1 device that performs no intelligent
processing, only cleaning up, amplifying, and re-timing the
signals.
Token
Ring
Token Ring—ICON to represent a layer 2 token ring
topology.
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