29 May
2013
29 May
'13
8:14 a.m.
BITNET revival? Or were there other uses for Jnet?
Was BITNET all 9600-baud synchronous modems or were there other (async?) links available
between sites?
Tim.
29 May
29 May
8:27 a.m.
I also recall Argonne (remember I worked under DOE contracts for a good while) having a
NJE suite for VMS and a little googling finds this (written, of course in Fortran!):
http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6358897
The above may or may not be the same as ANJE (I always thought... A in ANJE was for
Argonne! But I never connected NJE with ANJE, not being an IBM guy!)
11:09 a.m.
On 29/05/2013 16:14, Shoppa, Tim wrote:
BITNET revival? Or were there other uses for Jnet?
The Hercules Mainframe emulator supports emulated Bi-Sync and HDLC over
TCP/IP. The "freely available" OS's also support bi-sync and HDLC but
not TCP/IP so it could be usefull usefull.
Was BITNET all 9600-baud synchronous modems or were
there other (async?) links available between sites?
I think there were slower, and later faster links over Kilostream in the
UK...
http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/ccd/literature/ccd_newsletters/forum/p8…
Tim.
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Dave Wade G4UGM
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11:25 a.m.
BITNET revival? Or were there other uses for Jnet?
BITNET revival would be fun. One could have used Jnet to turn a VAX
into a remote entry station of sorts too, of course.
Was BITNET all 9600-baud synchronous modems or were
there other
(async?) links available between sites?
Transport could have been nearly anything agreed on by the two ends of
the link. I don't remember when Princeton did VMNET (internet suggests
1989 or so), but that used TCP/IP connections.
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