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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 13:57:00 EDT
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Re: OSI standards

An interesting (and well-written) critique of the OSI is:

	"The Elements of Networking Style", M.A.Padlipsky,
	Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ  07632, USA
	(1985).

The book compares the 7+ layer OSI model to the 3 layer Arpanet model,
and discusses the +'s and -'s of both.

The author claims to have written "an insistently non-stodgy technical book",
and has succeeded in my opinion.  The book transfers a lot of technical and
historical information on inter-computer networking in non-dry well-written
style.  It is also a good introduction to this field.

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