Open Blueprint

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Open Blueprint was an IBM framework developed in the early 1990s (and released in March 1992) that provided a standard for connecting network computers.{{citation

| url = http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Open+Blueprint |title= Open Blueprint| author=The Computer Language Company Inc.}} The open blueprint structure reduced redundancy by combining protocols.{{citation| url = http://www.pms.ifi.lmu.de/mitarbeiter/ohlbach/multimedia/IT/IBMtutorial/3376c13.html| title= IBM and the Internet| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110719055421/http://www.pms.ifi.lmu.de/mitarbeiter/ohlbach/multimedia/IT/IBMtutorial/3376c13.html| archive-date = 2011-07-19}}{{cite journal| author = Myers, Marc

| title = Introducing: IBM's Open Blueprint

| journal = Data Based Advisor

| volume = 13

| issue = 5

| year = 1995

| issn = 1090-6436

| pages = 130–132

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