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Bitnet - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Bitnet :
/bit'net/ (Because It's Time NETwork) An academic
and research computer network connecting approximately 2500
computers. BITNET provides interactive, electronic mail and
file transfer services, using a store and forward
protocol, based on IBM Network Job Entry protocols.
Bitnet-II encapsulates the Bitnet protocol within IP
packets and depends on the Internet to route them. BITNET
traffic and Internet traffic are exchanged via several
gateway hosts.
BITNET is now operated by CREN.
BITNET is everybody's least favourite piece of the network.
The BITNET hosts are a collection of IBM dinosaurs,
VAXen (with lobotomised communications hardware), and Prime
Computer supermini computers. They communicate using
80-character EBCDIC card images (see eighty-column mind);
thus, they tend to mangle the headers and text of
ASCII/{RFC_822">third-party traffic from the rest of the ASCII/{RFC 822
world with annoying regularity. BITNET is also notorious as
the apparent home of BIFF.
[{Jargon File]
(2002-09-02)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Bitnet : Because It's Time NETwork (network)
Based on Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [Acronyms_Dictionary]:
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Bitnet : /bit'net/ n., obs. [acronym: Because It's Time NETwork]
Everybody's least favorite piece of the network (see the network) -
until AOL happened. The BITNET hosts were a collection of IBM dinosaurs
and VAXen (the latter with lobotomized comm hardware) that communicate
{EBCDIC">using 80-character {EBCDIC card images (see eighty-column mind);
thus, they tend to mangle the headers and text of third-party traffic
from the rest of the ASCII/{RFC-822 world with annoying regularity.
BITNET was also notorious as the apparent home of B1FF. By 1995 it
had, much to everyone's relief, been obsolesced and absorbed into the
Internet. Unfortunately, around this time we also got AOL.
Based on Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [Acronyms_Dictionary]:
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Example Usage of Bitnet |
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moonhunt: @nike984 @chaos314 뭐 초창기 하이텔 오에스동 통해서 리눅스 2HD 디스켓으로 14장이었나를 IBM Bitnet 으로 다운 받아서 학교 전산실 40대의 AT로 복사해서 오프 모임으로 배급하기도 했었습니다. (쿨럭) |
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naoto_matsumoto: ipv4とipv6の異なるネットワークを混在させる。そうだ、inter-networkingって、こういう事だったよなぁと再認識。 e.g.. Bitnet,DECNET,USENET あとなんだっけ。 |
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