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Subject: RE:  BEGINNER'S GUIDE
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                   I N T E R O F F I C E   M E M O R A N D U M

                                        Date:      22-Nov-1987 19:49 
                                        From:      Gerry Schmid 
                                        Username:  SCHMIDG 
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                                        Tel No:    (617)-256-3969

TO:  _MAILER!                             ( _DDN[PCIP@UDEL.EDU] )


Subject: RE:  BEGINNER'S GUIDE


>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.

The functional specifications for TCP and IP can be FTP'd from SRI-NIC. 
They are RFC793.TXT and RFC791.TXT in directory RFC.  Together these 
files are about 200Kb.  That should be enough information for a 
beginner's guide. 

Gerry.

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