Network differences

David Canzi dmcanzi at watdcsu.UUCP
Mon Dec 2 10:17:58 AEST 1985


In article <9080 at ritcv.UUCP> spw2562 at ritcv.UUCP (Snoopy) writes:
>Incidentaly, The network commonly called BITNET is really three networks..
>BITNET (US), NORTHNET (Canada), and CERN (Europe).  (I think).

Not quite, they're called BITNET, NETNORTH, and EARN.  (Some people
wanted to call the Canadian network "GWNET" (Great White NET), but the
humourless bureaucratic types prevented it.)

They *really* *are* one network, but there is a common illusion that
the political boundaries between parts of the network are important.
-- 
David Canzi

"But lo! men have become the tools of their tools."  -- Henry David Thoreau



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