SIMNET

SIMNET is a wide area network of the United States military designed for real-time distributed combat simulation.Jack Thorpe of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) saw the need for networked multi-user simulation. Interactive simulation equipment was very expensive, and reproducing training facilities was likewise expensive and time consuming. In the early 1980s, DARPA decided to create a prototype research system to investigate the feasibility of creating a real-time distributed simulator for combat simulation. SIMNET, the resulting application, was to prove both the feasibility and effectiveness of such a project (Pimental and Blau 1994). SIMNET was developed by three companies, Delta Graphics, Inc., Perceptronics, Inc. and Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), Inc.
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