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'''VNET''' |
'''VNET''' is a nationwide [[computer networking system]] deployed in the early 1980s and still in current, but highly diminished use. It was developed by [[IBM]], and provided the main email and file-transfer backbone for the company throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Through it, a number of protocols were developed to deliver e-mail amongst time sharing computers over alternate transmission systems. |
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Revision as of 19:10, 22 October 2007
VNET is a nationwide computer networking system deployed in the early 1980s and still in current, but highly diminished use. It was developed by IBM, and provided the main email and file-transfer backbone for the company throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Through it, a number of protocols were developed to deliver e-mail amongst time sharing computers over alternate transmission systems.
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V-Net is also a term used to describe a subnetted VLAN