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In single-player mode, the client acts as both client and server, and can run both client and server mods. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Client mods can result in loss of performance (due to generally heavy resource demands) on older or weaker computers, [ 3 ] especially if players run many mods together at once in what is known as a "modpack".
This client–server terminology – the user's terminal being the server and the applications being the clients – often confuses new X users, because the terms appear reversed. But X takes the perspective of the application, rather than that of the end-user: X provides display and I/O services to applications, so it is a server; applications ...