[ih] Quick Question

[johnl at iecc.com (John Levine)]

>               How many people was connected to a network in 1980 ?
>(BITNET, CSNET ?just created-)...

It is my impression there were some substantial proprietary networks
in 1980.  SITA probably had 10,000 terminals.  IBM's VNET had 285
mainframe nodes in 1979 and was growing rapidly, and probably had
several thousand users in 1980.  DEC also had an internal network,
which could have had a thousand users in 1980.

R's,
John