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Relationship to BITNET?

Article states that VNET was developed by IBM, but its no clear to me if it was in fact based on BITNET or not, and what the extent of inter-breeing between the two was. linas 18:48, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The VNET is the IBM internal corporate network which was based on SNA not RSCS as Bitnet was and existed oh maybe a decade before Bitnet. Gateways existed between the VNET (private, highly corporate and fairly academic Bitnet, both directly and indirectly using the ARPAnet. It developed as a bit of frustration on Ira Fuchs' part with the slowness of IBM getting a networking product out. --enm, 2:20, 2 Nov 2007 (UTC)

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