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Article #450Re: good book introducing OSI for novices
From: Jon Crowcroft
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 08:40
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 08:40
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>> I am a user of TCP/IP and we'll have an connection to the OSI >>world. Douglas Comer wrote a wonderful book introducing TCP/IP. >>Is there any good book introducing OSI for novices. Thanks. yes, Data Communications Computer Networks and Open Systems, by Fred Halsall Addison Wesley, make sure you get the 3rd edition (1992) ISBN 0 201 56506 4 its very clear, very up to date, un-partisan and yopu can even get the overhead transparencies for a more implementation oriented book (but assumes a lot of pre-knowledge) the Open Book by mtr is the best as mentioned by others jon
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!keele!nott-cs!ucl-cs!news From: J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Jon Crowcroft) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso Subject: Re: good book introducing OSI for novices Message-ID: <2981@ucl-cs.uucp> Date: 10 Sep 92 08:40:39 GMT Sender: news@cs.ucl.ac.uk Lines: 20