20 Jan
2014
20 Jan
'14
1:29 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:06 AM, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
I might think any of the networking standards from the
major players -
clearly IBM, but also CDC, Burroughs, etc. Military stuff, too (some
of which might still be in use).
I add my vote to acquire material related to these participants and activities.
An interesting non-military, non-research global network was the
banking network known as SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank
Financial Telecommunication) that commenced in the early 1970s. SWIFT
was initially bisync, then packet switched, then IP based. It only
went IP based sometime in the late 1990s. Burroughs, Fujitsu and GA
were early technology contributors, and I had an idea the Burroughs
Network Architecture (BNA) was informed by and contributed back to the
early SWIFT designs.