Front-end processors

A front end processors is located at the sit of the CPU or the host computer and it’s purpose is to relieve the central computer of some the communications tasks, leaving the larger computer free for processing appliations programs. Here we can see that communication processing and data processing equipment are nearly alike. Indeed, front-end processors are computers- they have some identical circuitry and perform many of the operations that a data processing equipment performs. The only difference between the two kinds of equipment is in their purpose.