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by greenyoda
3569 days ago
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I seem to remember that people were already using "front-end" and "back-end" in the 1980s when "client/server" computing was the big trend of the times. The front-end clients were GUI applications running on PCs and the back-end servers were mainframes or minicomputers. Some programmers worked on both, some programmers specialized on one or the other. Just like today. The use of "front-end" in computing probably originated from its much earlier usage to mean the front part of some machine or vehicle, e.g., front-end loader, front-end alignment, etc. |
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