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From: johnan@mchale.ism.isc.com (John Antypas)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: "The Open Book" by Rose - your opinions sought
Keywords: OSI
Message-ID: <1990Sep04.153107.967@ism.isc.com>
Date: 4 Sep 90 15:31:07 GMT
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In article <65137@yarra.oz.au> chris@yarra.oz.au (Chris Jankowski) writes:
>From RFC1175:
>   Rose, Marshall T., The Open Book: A Practical Perspective on OSI, 651
>   pgs., Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1989.
>
>What do you think about the book? Is it worth buying?

I'm only one view here, but for myself at least, the Open Book is 
probably one of the clearest explanations of OSI we've seen yet --
and that's saying quite a lot -- unless you LIKE reading standards
documents!  Rumor has it that Prentace Hall has another text concerning
OSI that I saw at Interop last year, but I have yet to find it.  It's
a shame P.H. isn't on the net.  Get the Open Book and Isode and you
are on your way to OSI (sort of).
John Antypas / Interactive Systems Corp.
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