isäntätietokoneen
Isäntätietokone, or host computer, refers to a central computer that provides services or resources to other computers, often called clients, on a network. This concept is fundamental to understanding many networked systems, from early mainframe environments to modern client-server architectures.
In traditional mainframe computing, a powerful central isäntätietokone handled all processing and data storage, with terminals
The relationship between an isäntätietokone and its clients is characterized by a request-response cycle. Clients initiate