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From: billw@wolf.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: I'm caught in NETS
Message-ID: <299@wolf.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 18-Apr-87 18:29:55 EST
Article-I.D.: wolf.299
Posted: Sat Apr 18 18:29:55 1987
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Summary: Oh, what a tangled web..

Herbert Goertzel (goertzel@DCA-EMS.ARPA) writes:

>I'll start with what I know, I'm connected to a host on the DDN MILNET which
>is a part of the ARPANET.  In reading the digests I come across USENET, BITNET,
>CSNet, UUCP, BIX, etc.  I have no idea what all these nets are, who controls
>them, how I can connect to them, what they are.  There are many references to
>UH-INFO at UHUPVM1 ATARINET.  Is this another net? Is it on one of the nets
>mentioned above?  Can I get to it from ARPANET?

BIX is a consumer network (like CompuServe, but not as good) run by BYTE
magazine. In no way is it connected to ARPA/UUCP/CSNET/BITNET/FREDNET or
anything else. ATARINET is simply a file server that stores various Atari
programs and files that can be retrieved (ARPA ot BITNET, I don't remember
which). UUCP and USENET are synonymous; being an interconnected network of
UNIX machines which get their jollies by periodically dialing up other UNIX
machines and having a nice little chat session, incidentally running up tidy
little phone bills. CSNET is a network of various Computer Science departments
at colleges here, there, and in la-la land. I think you are rather familiar
with the idea of an "ARPANET." BITNET.. I have no idea. Something like ARPA,
I think, which is (like ARPA) gatewayed onto USENET.
-- 
Bill Wisner
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