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Title	Understanding Networking Technology: Concepts, Terms and Trends (Artech House Telecommunications Library)
Author(s)	Mark Norris
ISBN	0890068798
Language	English
Publisher	Artech House

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
I must admit I was a bit surprised to open a book with that title and find that it was a glossary. On second thought, however, why not? (According to psycholinguistics, language *is* understanding.) Norris has put more than a bare definition into many of the entries, and the result is similar to a smaller and less complete version of Shnier's "Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Communications Terms" (see reviews). There is a concluding essay on trends in information technology. There are errors. I suspect Norris mixed up ABI (Application Binary Interface) and API (Application Programming Interface). Kermit is *not* public domain, and *not* slow (unless you can't be bothered to find the proper parameters) although it is robust. Some choices are odd: I have no idea what dithering has to do with networking, and would rather have seen the space devoted to more details of Manchester encoding. The definition of virus is no good, although the explanation of a worm is. There are a number of acronym expansions that I was not aware of (ping, daemon), but I rather think many of them are "after the fact" contructions, like veronica. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996
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