Ica (ē`kä), city (1993 pop. 108,724), capital of Ica dept., SW Peru, on the Pan-American Highway. It is a commercial center for the cotton, wool, and wine produced in the region. There are several summer resorts nearby. Ica is also the archaeological name of the Chincha empire of ancient Peru, which had one of its major centers in the adjacent valley. The empire fell to the Inca in the 15th cent. The Spanish settled the city in 1563. In Ica is the shrine of Our Lord of Luren, the site of colorful pilgrimages. The city has twice been leveled by earthquakes. It has a museum and a university.
ICA
(Independent Computing Architecture) An input/output presentation protocol from Citrix that governs the keyboard, mouse and screen formatting between clients and servers in a thin client environment. Originally known as the "Intelligent Console Architecture," ICA is used in Citrix's thin client products (see Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop).
The First Windows Thin Client Computing
Using Citrix's WinFrame on Windows NT in the mid-1990s, ICA was the first protocol to provide thin client computing for Windows. Soon after, Microsoft came out with its Terminal Services, based largely on Citrix software, but using the RDP protocol. Initially one of ICA's advantages, there is numerous ICA client support, including Windows, DOS, Mac, Unix, Linux and Java. See thin client, WinFrame and Terminal Services.
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| ICA in Practice |
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| ICA was first used in Citrix's WinFrame software, which turned a Windows NT server into a thin client computing environment. |
