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BITNET
BITNET (networking)/bit'net/ (Because It's Time NETwork) An academicand research computer network connecting approximately 2500computers. BITNET provides interactive, electronic mail andfile transfer services, using a store and forwardprotocol, based on IBM Network Job Entry protocols.
Bitnet-II encapsulates the Bitnet protocol within IPpackets and depends on the Internet to route them. BITNETtraffic and Internet traffic are exchanged via severalgateway 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 using80-character EBCDIC card images (see eighty-column mind);thus, they tend to mangle the headers and text ofthird-party traffic from the rest of the ASCII/RFC 822world with annoying regularity. BITNET is also notorious asthe apparent home of BIFF.BITNETA worldwide communications network founded in 1981 that served higher education and research. Well known for its LISTSERV software for managing electronic mailing lists, for years, BITNET was the world's largest computer-based, higher-education network. It was gradually supplanted by the Internet.BITNET
BITNET Because It’s There Network (alternatively, Because It’s Time Network). A university-based information network of historic interest, which was founded in 1981 at the City University of New York and Yale as a point-to-point "store and forward" system. When its use peaked in 1991, it had extended to 500 organisations and 3000 nodes. With the rapid growth of internet TCP/IP systems in the 1990s, BITNET was rapidly abandoned.BITNET
BITNETA network cooperative that predated wide use of the Internet. It allowed universities that joined and purchased modems to share information with each other. Formed between Yale and the City University of New York in 1981, it was used by many universities worldwide during the 1980s. By the mid-1990s, however, it had largely disintegrated.BITNET
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