VNET is an international computer networking system deployed in the mid-1970s and still in current, but highly diminished use. It was developed inside...
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mid-1970s: IBM VNET. VNET was an international computer networking system deployed in the mid-1970s, providing email and file-transfer for IBM. By September...
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leased data lines prior to the implementation of personal notes in 1974. IBM VNET was deployed by 1975, using BSC to communicate among CP-67 and VM hosts...
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RSCS (category IBM mainframe software)
Hendricks and T.C. Hartmann. Both as an IBM product and as an IBM internal network, it later became known as VNET. The network interfaces continued to be...
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technology arrives, its misuse is not long in following. The first worm in the IBM VNET was covered up. Shortly after, a worm hit the Internet on 3 November 1988...
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Cambridge Scientific Center (redirect from IBM Cambridge Scientific Center)
software support for the IBM PC which allowed PCs to access IBM and many other non-IBM mainframes {the work of Jim Perchik}. The VNET networking software became...
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Edson Hendricks (category IBM employees)
Hendricks (May 22, 1945 - August 29, 2020), an IBM computer scientist, developed RSCS (later known as VNET), fundamental software that powered the world’s...
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time-sharing computers over alternative transmission systems, such as UUCP and IBM's VNET email system. Email could be passed this way between a number of networks...
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1,400 institutions of higher education, government laboratories, and IBM's VNET network. It was the first academic computer network to connect the United...
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onto the European Academic Research Network (EARN), BITNET, and IBM's worldwide VNET. On all of these systems it caused massive disruption. The core mechanism...
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BBS member was connected to an Internet shell account on servers run by IBM's VNET division. This solution quickly proved to be slow and confusing to members...
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VM (operating system) (category IBM mainframe operating systems)
VM (often: VM/CMS) is a family of IBM virtual machine operating systems used on IBM mainframes System/370, System/390, zSeries, System z and compatible...
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customer requests, IBM developed a suite of facilities, derived from BITNET and VNET, known as Network Job Entry. As part of that software, IBM provided commands...
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the huge IBM internal network known as VNET. BITNET links originally ran at 9600 bit/s. The BITNET protocols were eventually ported to non-IBM mainframe...
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national academic and research networks. There also was limited access to VNET, IBM's internal communications network. At the network layer EARN was based...
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Better Call Saul, class of 1983 Edson Hendricks - an IBM computer scientist and developer of RSCS or VNET, class of 1963 Rudi Protrudi - lead vocalist and...
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Cuckoo's Egg. The Christmas Tree EXEC "worm" causes major disruption to the VNET, BITNET and EARN networks. The Morris Worm. Graduate student Robert T. Morris...
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