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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) : [ foldoc ]
BITNET
/bit'net/ (Because It's Time NETwork) An academic
and research computer network connecting approximately 2500
computers. BITNET provides interactive, electronic mail and
file transfer services, using a store and forward
protocol, based on IBM Network Job Entry protocols.
Bitnet-II encapsulates the Bitnet protocol within IP
packets and depends on the Internet to route them. BITNET
traffic and Internet traffic are exchanged via several
gateway hosts.
BITNET is now operated by CREN.
BITNET is everybody's least favourite piece of the network.
The BITNET hosts are a collection of IBM dinosaurs,
VAXen (with lobotomised communications hardware), and Prime
Computer supermini computers. They communicate using
80-character EBCDIC card images (see eighty-column mind);
thus, they tend to mangle the headers and text of
ASCII/{RFC+822" rel="nofollow">third-party traffic from the rest of the ASCII/{RFC 822
world with annoying regularity. BITNET is also notorious as
the apparent home of BIFF.
[{Jargon File]
(2002-09-02)
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) : [ jargon ]
BITNET /bit'net/ n., obs. [acronym: Because It's Time NETwork]
Everybody's least favorite piece of the network (see the network) -
until AOL happened. The BITNET hosts were a collection of IBM dinosaurs
and VAXen (the latter with lobotomized comm hardware) that communicate
{EBCDIC" rel="nofollow">using 80-character {EBCDIC card images (see eighty-column mind);
thus, they tend to mangle the headers and text of third-party traffic
from the rest of the ASCII/{RFC-822 world with annoying regularity.
BITNET was also notorious as the apparent home of B1FF. By 1995 it
had, much to everyone's relief, been obsolesced and absorbed into the
Internet. Unfortunately, around this time we also got AOL.
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) : [ vera ]
BITNET
Because It's Time NETwork (network)
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
BITNET
n.
(lb en computing historical) An early North American academic
computer network founded in 1981, supporting e-mail and listservs but
pre-dating the World Wide Web.
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
BITNET
n.
(lb en computing historical) An early North American academic
computer network founded in 1981, supporting e-mail and listservs but
pre-dating the World Wide Web.
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
BITNET
n.
(lb en computing historical) An early North American academic
computer network founded in 1981, supporting e-mail and listservs but
pre-dating the World Wide Web.
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
BITNET
n.
(lb en computing historical) An early North American academic
computer network founded in 1981, supporting e-mail and listservs but
pre-dating the World Wide Web.
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Bitnet /bˈɪtnɪt/
البتنت
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
n. 国际学术网路 ; 网络名,(BECAUSE IT'S TIME
NETWORK的缩写。一个以欧美各大学为主的学术网络结构,通过邮件网关和INTERNET可以互相发送邮件)
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