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3 unusual facts about Xerox Network Systems


3+Share

3+Share included the EtherShare and EtherPrint protocols, which leveraged Xerox's XNS network protocol.

Xerox Network Systems

During the 1980s XNS was used by 3Com and, with modifications, by a number of other commercial systems which became more common than XNS itself, including Ungermann-Bass Net/One, Novell NetWare, and Banyan VINES.

Sequenced Packet Protocol (SPP) was an acknowledged transport protocol, analogous to TCP; one chief technical difference is that the sequence numbers count the packets, and not the bytes as in TCP and PUP's BSP; it was the direct antecedent to Novell's IPX/SPX.



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