>What is fat and thin client?
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>Brenda

A normally connected computer that is hooked to a LAN is referred to as a FAT Client - it has the ability to handle everything locally (OS, Applications, etc). Whereas, a thin client is a hardware device attached to a LAN that does not actually process anything locally - think back to the days of mainframe dumb terminals - all the processing is done on the server. A normal computer can actually act as both...

You may want to check www.citrix.com, and http://www.microsoft.com/NTServer/TerminalServer/

HTH