BITNET
Short for Because It’s Time Network, BITNET is one of the oldest and largest wide-area networks, used extensively by universities. A new version of BITNET, called BITNET-II, relies on the Internet network to transfer messages and files.
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- BLS
Short for Basic Link Service, and also called Link Service, it is a Fibre Channel request and response protocol used by all devices.
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- BOC
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