Banyan VINES

Banyan VINES is a discontinued network operating system developed by Banyan Systems for computers running AT&T's UNIX System V.

VINES
Protocol stack
PurposeLAN
Developer(s)Banyan Systems
Introduction1984 (1984)
Based onXNS
OSI layer3 to 7
HardwareEthernet, others

VINES is an acronym for Virtual Integrated NEtwork Service. Like Novell NetWare, VINES's network services are based on the Xerox XNS stack.

James Allchin, who later worked as Group Vice President for Platforms at Microsoft until his retirement on January 30, 2007, was the chief architect of Banyan VINES.

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