Banyan VINES

Banyan VINES, whose name stands for Virtual Integrated NEtwork Service, is a discontinued network operating system that Banyan Systems built around 1984 for computers running AT&T's UNIX System V, using a monolithic kernel written in C on x86 hardware. Like Novell NetWare, its network services were based on the Xerox XNS protocol stack, communicating through a low level protocol called VINES Internetwork Protocol. Its best known feature, StreetTalk, was a globally consistent naming service using a hierarchical item at group at organization scheme that let large, geographically spread organizations present a single unified network. James Allchin, later a Microsoft platforms executive, served as its chief architect, and the system found strong adoption among government agencies and multinational corporations through the 1980s and early 1990s before losing ground to Novell and Microsoft's directory services offerings. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/