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From: myers@bnl.UUCP (Eric Myers)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Network differences
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Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 14:50:01 EST
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> In article <560@brl-sem.ARPA> ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) writes:
>> BITNET:  BITNET is to the IBM world what UUCP is to the UNIX world.

This is not an accurate characterization.  There are all sorts of
machines on Bitnet, running VM/CMS, MVS, and UNIX.  I'm on a Unix
machine right now.  What is true is that the protocols for Bitnet
(RSCS) were designed by IBM, and Bitnet originally consisted of
just IBM machines.  I think that most of the machines on that net
are still IBM.

The best description of Bitnet is that it is a network of University
and Research lab computers linked together using the RSCS protocols.
-- 
Eric Myers,  Physics Dept., Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lon Guyland, NY
             myers@bnl.arpa / myers@bnl.bitnet / ...philabs!sbcs!bnl!myers

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