< networking > A circuit-switched digital network, similar to X.25 . Datakit supports host-to-host connections and EIA-232 connections for terminals , printers , and hosts .
Most of Bell Laboratories is trunk ed together on Datakit. On top of DK transport service, people run UUCP for electronic mail and dkcu for remote login .
ISN is the version of Datakit supported by AT&T Information Systems. Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, uses ISN for internal data communication.
http://www.fc.net:80/phrack/files/p18/p18-9.html .
["Towards a universal data transport system", A. G. Fraser, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, SAC-1(5) pp. 803-16, 1983].
(1996-10-20)