March 2000
Intermediate to advanced
720 pages
20h 10m
English
Until the early 1990s, TCP/IP was really only prevalent in large government and research facilities where UNIX and other supercomputing operating systems used it as a common network communications protocol. When PCs came into the picture, they were not networked. Rather, they were used either as front-ends to big micro or mainframe systems (IBM was a big fan of this approach) or as standalone systems. In the early 1980s, as PCs grew in number and in performance, three strategies emerged to provide PCs with networking services: AppleTalk, Novell NetWare, and IBM's NetBIOS.
The goal of this chapter is to give you an understanding of the various protocols that make up the protocol ...
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