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Subject: Re: where can I learn more?
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Date: 19 Oct 90 22:03:00 GMT
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/* Written  5:58 pm  Oct 17, 1990 by mbharrin@sdcc13.ucsd.edu in uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac.comm */
/* ---------- "where can I learn more?" ---------- */
I've been trying to follow some of the discussions
here on comp.sys.mac.comm but find that I don't
know enough to understand most of them.  Where can
I go (books, magazines, etc.) to find out some of the
terms that most people are using, such as TCP,
IP, ethernet, UUCP, etc... ?
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These are all networking terms. The favorite Mac magazine is MacUser, and it
has a 'bridges' column that covers these things.

TCP/IP: I forget what it stands for, but it's a big networking protocol amongst
unix machines. This is opposed to AppleTalk, which is what the Macs use. NCSA
Telnet requires TCP drivers that can accept TCP commands and work with the
'router' connecting the AppleTalk and TCP networks to translate. This is how
you can use it to do ftp (and jus' plain old telnetting) with unix machines.

Ethernet is a very fast network medium. Whereas TCP/IP and AppleTalk are
_protocols_, enthernet describes the wires and such that they run on. Apple's
version of AppleTalk designed for ethernet is called EtherTalk. Normally
Macs are connected with the _much_ slower LocalTalk, but unix machines use
ethernet.

UUCP: Unix-to-unix copy. Try 'man uucp' to get information on it, but it is
used for moving files between unix machines. 'ftp' is another (based on TCP).
UUCP is old even for unix; I don't know why I would use it.

I'm sure others will have comments about my comments...

Mark Lanett
ml27192@uxa.cs.uiuc.edu

Flash: I just realized you don't mean what I think you mean by UUCP. So ignore
my answer, and the one I can't provide because I don't know it...