| 11. | As of 2008, these Tymnet Island nodes are still running and doing their jobs.
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| 12. | After the migration to Interdata, they started developing Tymnet on the PDP-10.
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| 13. | Tymnet technology needed improvements to keep pace with TCP / IP and other Internet protocols.
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| 14. | However the value of these links continued to decrease, and Tymnet shut down in 2004.
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| 15. | Node code software was ported from the Tymnet Engine to a Sparc platform by Bill Soley.
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| 16. | Tymshare sold the Tymnet network software to TRW, who created their own private network, TRWNET.
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| 17. | In 1984 Tymnet was bought by the McDonnell Douglas Corporation as part of the acquisition of Tymshare.
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| 18. | Microdata's systems were integrated into many parts of McDonnell Douglas, but Tymnet never was.
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| 19. | Telematics International developed a subset of the Tymnet protocols to run on their ACP / PCP nodes.
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| 20. | "Tymnet's value fell once it was scrunched into MCI, " says Dodd.
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