Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site ada-uts.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cca!ada-uts!callen From: callen@ada-uts.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Re: Re: Bitnet and Arpanet Message-ID: <16800001@ada-uts.UUCP> Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 10:19:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ada-uts.16800001 Posted: Thu Sep 5 10:19:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 04:45:55 EDT References: <1064@brl-tgr.UUCP> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:brl-tgr:-106400:ada-uts:16800001:000:921 Nf-From: ada-uts!callen Sep 5 10:19:00 1985 >Hal - Bitnet is a service of EDUCOM. Bitnet, CSNET and one or two others >are all services of EDUCOM. If I remember correctly, all of the EDUCOM Huh? I used to be at a BITNET site (U of Chicago), and BITNET is pretty much a home-rolled network based on IBM's NJE (Network Job Entry) protocol, which VM/370 supports with a product called RSCS. Administration is out of (I think) Columbia. Each site supplies a 9600 baud dedicated to the nearest node already on the network and in turn agrees to allow at least one other site to link to them. It is, in fact, a store and forward system.You can, however, shuttle interactive commands around the network, so TSO and CMS users can interactively talk to each other (though it can be S L O W . . .). There are at least 500 sites on BITNET, I think more. It is limited to educational institutions. The name Ira Fuchs comes to me as the network originator and administrator.