BITNET was a cooperative USA university computer network founded in 1981 by Ira Fuchs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and Greydon Freeman at Yale University. The first network link was between CUNY and Yale. The requirements for a college or university to join BITNET were simple: From a technical point of view, BITNET differed from the I...
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Because It's Time Network - the American academic network - the equivalent of Janet in the UK - it is based on IBM mainframes, and therefore uses EBCDIC character codes
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Because It's Time Network
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A network of educational sites separate from the Internet, but e-mail is freely exchanged between BITNET and the Internet. Listservs®, a popular form of e-mail discussion groups, originated on BITNET. At its peak (the late 1980's and early 1990's) BITNET machines were usually mainframes, often running IBM's MVS operating system. BITNET is proba......
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Bitnet is an international computer network linking colleges and universities, similar to Usenet but using a different set of technical protocols for distributing information. It offers hundreds of discussion groups, comparable in scope to Usenet newsgroups.
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Because It's Time Networking Services. Low-cost, low-speed academic network consisting primarily of IBM mainframes and 9600-bps leased lines. BITNET is now a part of CREN. See also CREN.
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