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From: fossum@uwpvacs.UUCP (Timothy Fossum)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re:  beginners guide to ... ?
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Date: Sat, 21-Nov-87 18:50:09 EST
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>This might sound like a dumb question, but can anyone out there
>recommend a textbook/series of articles/etc that describe simply
>just what tcp/ip is (other than the usual intro. "TCP/IP is a series
>of protocols that the Department of Defense created ...")
>Andrew Tanenbaum's "Computer Networks" barely references it, and
>Mischa Schwartz's "Telecommunication Networks/ Protocols, Modeling and
>Analysis" has maybe 5 pages on the subject.

Doug Comer's book "Operating Systems Design, Internetworking with Xinu",
describes the IP part of TCP/IP, and goes into some detail about UDP
as well.  There must be someone else who can give you information about the
details of TCP.