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What affected the reliability of the system?: Technology

Networking was a big part of the project. At the start of the project there was already networks established in this country allowing the business of X, XUK, and X-Group to be handled in many regional centres throughout the UK (00191). There were also separate initiatives underway on electronic communications (00202). Initially they used ISDN connections between countries and despite differences in ISDN implementations the networking worked well (00275, 00277) resulting in a wide area network linking LANs in London, Essex (2), North of England, Holland, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago (00806). With the introduction of Unix they began to use Replication server and were planning to revamp their network using frame relay (00736, 01106).

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