Editing Client (computing) (section)

===Thin===
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[[File:PCExpanion.jpg|thumb|A thin client computer]]

A ''thin client'' is a minimal sort of client.  Thin ''clients'' use the resources of the host computer. A thin client generally only presents processed data provided by an [[application server]], which performs the bulk of any required data processing. A device using [[web application]] (such as [[Office Web Apps]]) is a thin client.<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last1=Baratto |first1=Ricardo A. |last2=Kim |first2=Leonard N. |last3=Nieh |first3=Jason |title=Proceedings of the twentieth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles |chapter=THINC: A virtual display architecture for thin-client computing |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1095810.1095837 |series=Sosp '05 |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |pages=277–290 |doi=10.1145/1095810.1095837 |date=20 October 2005|isbn=9781595930798 |s2cid=723321 }}</ref>