Talk:Host (network)/Archive 1

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a Host is not always a node. I have removed the redirect and corrected the def. I have also included the cites for this def. --<span id="akc9000 (talk · contribs)" class="plainlinks" style="color:#002bb8">[[User:akc9000 (talk · contribs)|akc9000 (talk · contribs)]] ^{([[User talk:akc9000 (talk · contribs)|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/akc9000 (talk · contribs)|contribs]] • count)} 20:59, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

That is a computer

The first sentence of the article reads, "A host is a node on a network that is a computer." It's got a certain poetry to it, but I have no idea what it means. Evidently, "that" is being used to mean "which."

If "that" were changed to "which" and followed by a comma, it would obviously mean that the network is a computer. But without a comma, or as it stands, there's no way to tell which noun "that" refers to. It could be "host," "node," or "network."

I'm coming to this article to find out precisely what a host is, but I don't know what nodes or networks are, either, except vaguely.

May I entice somebody to provide an opening sentence (or to reword that one) giving a clearer idea of what a host is -- and without the jargon, if possible? It's so frustrating to look something up only to discover you need an education to understand the opening sentence. Unfree (talk) 22:47, 7 March 2008 (UTC)