A computer network system, especially a digital communications network using the DECnet protocol created by Digital Equipment Corporation.
A portmanteau combining DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation, the company that created it) and network, coined in the 1970s as computer networking technology developed.
DECnet was once the rival to what became the modern internet—in the 1980s, some predicted DECnet would win out. Instead, it's a fascinating relic of computing history, a reminder that standards wars don't always go to the obvious victor.
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