 IBM favored the term "midrange computer" for their comparable, but more business-oriented, systems.Since the 1990s, when the client–server model of computing became predominant, computers of the comparable class are instead usually known as "servers" to recognize that they usually "serve" end users at their "client" computers.Midrange systems are primarily high-end network servers and other types of servers that can handle the large-scale processing of many business applications.