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Binary Synchronous Transmission
<protocol> (Bisynch) An IBM link protocol, developed in the 1960 and
popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
Binary Synchronous Transmission has been largely replaced in IBM environments
with SDLC. Bisync was developed for batch communications between a System 360
computer and the IBM 2780 and 3780 Remote Job Entry (RJE) terminals. It supports
RJE and on-line terminals in the CICS/VSE environment. It operates with EBCDIC
or ASCII character sets. It requires that every message be acknowledged (ACK) or
negatively acknowledged (NACK) so it has high transmission overhead. It is
typically character oriented and half-duplex, although some of the bisync
protocol flavours or dialects support binary transmission and full-duplex
operation.
(1997-01-07)
Nearby terms:
binary large object « binary package « binary search
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