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From: jbvb@ftp.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: tcp-ip what is it?
Summary: See comp.protocols.tcp-ip or comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc for more info.
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Date: 21 Feb 89 21:50:33 GMT
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In article <14729@cup.portal.com>, Vaprak@cup.portal.com (John C Foy) writes:
> I have been seeing quite a bit of talk about TCP-IP lately...  Would
> someone please advise me of what this is???
> 
TCP/IP is a family of inter-networking protocols developed over quite a number
of years.  It was originally funded by the DOD for use on the ARPAnet, but
as that grew into the Internet (a lot of networks all connected together),
academic and commercial use has greatly outgrown DOD usage.  IP stands for
Internet Protocol, a low-level datagram protocol, TCP stands for Transmission
Control Protocol, a reliable byte-stream protocol.

All the protocol documents are on-line at SRI-NIC.ARPA, as well as a list
of currently available implementations.  Use anonymous FTP to get them.
Doug Comer's book "Internetworking With TCP/IP" is pretty good.  So is
John Davidson's "An Introduction to TCP/IP", but it is considerably thinner.

Most 4bsd Unix systems come with TCP/IP support in the kernel.  Sun's NFS
is an application protocol layered on top of IP (and UDP, the User Datagram
Protocol).  Much of the news you see is moved at least part of the way to
you by the Network News Transport Protocol (over TCP and IP).
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