Xerox Network Systems (XNS) is a computer networking protocol suite developed by Xerox within the Xerox Network Systems Architecture. It provided general...
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The Xerox Star workstation, officially named Xerox Star 8010 Information System, is the first commercial personal computer to incorporate technologies...
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in 1980 for the exchange of information between elements of the Xerox Network Systems Architecture. It encodes the characters required for languages using...
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The Xerox Alto is a computer system developed at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) in the 1970s. It is considered one of the first workstations or...
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countries. Xerox was the pioneer of the photocopier market, beginning with the introduction of the Xerox 914 in 1959, so much so that the word xerox is commonly...
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Packet switching (redirect from Packet-switched network)
September 2013. "Xerox System Integration Standard - Internet Transport Protocols". Xerox. Stamford. 1981. "Chapter 12: Xerox Network Systems". AIX Version...
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PARC (company) (redirect from Xerox Parc)
scientist of Xerox Corporation, as a division of Xerox, tasked with creating computer technology-related products and hardware systems. Xerox PARC has been...
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Communication protocol (redirect from Network protocol design principles)
protocols such as IBM's Systems Network Architecture (SNA), Digital Equipment Corporation's DECnet and Xerox Network Systems. TCP software was redesigned...
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Ethernet (redirect from Xerox Ethernet)
Xerox agreed to relinquish their 'Ethernet' trademark. The first standard was published on September 30, 1980, as "The Ethernet, A Local Area Network...
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List of TCP and UDP port numbers (redirect from List of network ports)
ports or system ports. They are used by system processes that provide widely used types of network services. On Unix-like operating systems, a process...
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XNS or xns may refer to: Xerox Network Systems, an early computer networking protocol suite Extensible Name Service, an XML-based digital identity architecture...
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Internet protocol suite (redirect from IP network)
as Digital Equipment Corporation's DECnet, Open Systems Interconnection (OSI), and Xerox Network Systems (XNS). Nonetheless, for a period in the late 1980s...
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v2) IPSEC IPsec AppleTalk DECnet IPX/SPX Internet Protocol Suite Xerox Network Systems AEP AppleTalk Echo Protocol AH Authentication Header over IP or...
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Internetwork Packet Exchange (category Network layer protocols)
Packet Exchange (IPX) is the network-layer protocol in the IPX/SPX protocol suite. IPX is derived from Xerox Network Systems' IDP. It also has the ability...
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Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems Internet Datagram Protocol, a network-layer protocol used in Xerox Network Systems Independence (Amtrak station)...
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Banyan VINES (redirect from VINES Network)
Protocol—that was essentially identical to the lower layers of the Xerox Network Systems (XNS) protocols. Addresses consist of a 32-bit address and a 16-bit...
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British academic networks, the first international heterogeneous computer network. In 1973, Robert Metcalfe wrote a formal memo at Xerox PARC describing...
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Novell (redirect from Novell Unix Systems Group)
restrictions, thus making it attractive to systems administrators. Novell based its network protocol on Xerox Network Systems (XNS), and created its own standards...
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for the Python programming language Packet Exchange Protocol in Xerox Network Systems Performance-enhancing proxy, mechanisms to improve end-to-end TCP...
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storing them in some relatively human-readable serialized format. The Xerox Network Systems Courier technology in the early 1980s influenced the first widely...
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Pilot is a single-user, multitasking operating system designed by Xerox PARC in early 1977. Pilot was written in the Mesa programming language, totalling...
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by Xerox in the mid-1970s to route its experimental network. As part of the Xerox Network Systems (XNS) protocol suite GWINFO transformed into the XNS...
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Xerox® DocuShare® is an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) family of solutions developed by Xerox Corporation. It uses Open Standards, Open-Source Technologies...
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and the lessons of other network technologies of the past few decades, such as CYCLADES, DECnet, and Xerox Network Systems. RINA's fundamental principles...
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MAC address (category Network addressing)
MAC address. The IEEE 802 MAC address originally comes from the Xerox Network Systems Ethernet addressing scheme. This 48-bit address space contains potentially...
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Adobe Inc. (redirect from Adobe Systems Incorporated)
Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC to develop and sell the PostScript page description language. In 1985...
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Edward Taft, and Robert Metcalfe. In the 1980s Xerox used PUP as the base for the Xerox Network Systems (XNS) protocol suite; some of the protocols in...
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XMMS—X Multimedia System XMPP—eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol XMS—Extended Memory Specification XNS—Xerox Network Systems XP—Cross-Platform...
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Xerox Daybreak (also Xerox 6085 PCS, Xerox 1186) is a workstation computer marketed by Xerox from 1985 to 1989. Daybreak is the final release in the D*...
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History of email (section Host-based mail systems)
applications. Over time, a complex web of gateways and routing systems linked many of them. Some systems also supported a form of instant messaging, where sender...
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