[comp.unix.questions] Networks

jnoh@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Jay Noh) (10/10/89)

Can someone tell me the various networks existing in the UNIX world?
Or even better, guide me to a book referencing the networks?

Thanks,
Jay

vlcek@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Jim Vlcek) (10/11/89)

In article <1713@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> jnoh@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Jay Noh) writes:

>Can someone tell me the various networks existing in the UNIX world?
>Or even better, guide me to a book referencing the networks?

You might want to take a look at ``Notable Computer Networks,'' in the
October 1986 Communications of the ACM (Volume 29, Number 10, p. 932),
by J. S. Quarterman and J. C. Hoskins.  It's not unique to Unix
(although Jay's inclusion of bitnet in the keywords makes one wonder
if that's what he really wants anyway), but is fairly inclusive and is
likely a good starting point.

Jim Vlcek  (vlcek@caf.mit.edu  vlcek@athena.mit.edu  uunet!mit-caf!vlcek)

madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost) (10/11/89)

In article <1713@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> jnoh@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Jay Noh) writes:
|Can someone tell me the various networks existing in the UNIX world?
|Or even better, guide me to a book referencing the networks?

There are literally hundreds of networks.

What I would do is wait for John Quarterman's "The Matrix" to come out
(in the next month?  it's supposed to be soon...).  It has  the most
in-depth coverage of networks that I've ever seen, and its bibligraphy
will point you to just about anything else having to do with networks.

jim frost
software tool & die
madd@std.com