telnet

2 definitions found

telnet - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  TELNET
  
     /tel'net/ 1. The Internet standard protocol for remote
     login.  Runs on top of TCP/IP.  Defined in STD 8, RFC 854
      and extended with options by many other RFCs.  Unix
     BSD networking software includes a program, telnet, which
     uses the protocol and acts as a terminal emulator for the
     remote login session.  Sometimes abbreviated to TN.  TOPS-10
     had a similar program called IMPCOM.
  
     2. The US nationwide network into which one dials to access
     CompuServe.  It was created by John Goltz, one of the
     founders and system guru of CompuServe.  He later worked
     for Tymshare, one of CompuServe's big competitors.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (2004-09-14)
  

telnet - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  TELNET
         TELephone NETwork (Unix, Internet, RFC 854)