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In article <4mmal5$eam@what.why.net>, toms@why.net (Tom Sorensen) writes:
|> temp@or.ary (temp) wrote:
|> >is on the 'net.  I have received a few WWW sites, and I'm going to keep them
|> >for future reference, but for now I'd really appreciate advice on which
|> >books/magazines are best.
|> 
|> Read. Anything. It doesn't matter that much when you start - heck, if
|> he's really a novice then even Computer Shopper can be informative
|> (for, oh say, about a day. Then the massive inaccuracies take over).
|>...
|> As for books - I dunno any beginner ones. Middle to high end is
|> largely dominated by O'Reilly & Associates (aka Nutshell books).
|> They're reasonably priced, well written, humorous, and pack about 3x
|> as much information as the other books. For TCP/IP, I highly recommend
|> the Steven's books (I think that's the author). My copy is out on loan
|> right now, so I can't give an ISBN. It is a very high-end, technically
|> detailed overview of the TCP/IP stack and many of the application
|> level  protocols which use it.

  You refer to the books by Douglas Comer, which I also strongly
recommend.  These are not light-weight texts, but rather books for
people who really want to understand networking in depth.  David
Stevens coauthored Volume 3.  There are four books in the series, all
published by Prentice-Hall:
	Volume 1: Principles, Protocols, and Architectures
	Volume 2: Design, Implementation, and Internals
	Volume 3: Client-Server Programming and Applications 
		(BSD Socket Version)
	Volume 3: Client-Server Programming and Applications 
		(AT&T TLI Version)
(That last title might be wrong, since I don't have that volume.)  You
should be able to find these at any good bookstore, and certainly at a
book store near any university, e.g., SMU, UTD, etc.

|>                                 Of course, no overview of networking is
|> complete without a book on the OSI networking architecture.
|> Unfortunately, I don't remember a good one to suggest.

  How about Tannenbaum's textbook?  That one seems to be used a _lot_ as
a course text.

|> Tom Sorensen * toms@why.net * http://www.gt.ed.net/sorensen/computer2ir.html

    Bob
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