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"Packet Communication", Robert M. Metcalfe, 1996, 1-57398-033-1,
U$39.95/C$55.95
%A   Robert M. Metcalfe bob_metcalfe@infoworld.com
%C   P.O. Box 640218, San Jose, CA 95164-0218
%D   1996
%G   1-57398-033-1
%I   Peer-to-Peer Communications, Inc.
%O   U$39.95/C$55.95 800-420-2677 408-435-2677 fax: 408-435-0895
%O   info@peer-to-peer.com
%P   224
%S   Computer Classics Revisited
%T   "Packet Communication"
 
Bob Metcalfe invented Ethernet.  He contributed to the early development of the
Internet.  He founded 3Com Corporation.  All of which makes him a significant
contributor to modern technology, but why would anyone want to read his
doctoral dissertation?
 
The ideas in "Packet Communication" are fundamental to a great deal of network
operation.  The theories Metcalfe explored in his dissertation were later used
in the development of Ethernet, but they have also affected network design and
analysis right up to modern ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) systems.  In fact,
most books that try to explain Internet concepts make reference to Ethernet
technologies.  Metcalfe has also added a retrospective outlining the general
work going on at the time his paper was originally published (1973) and
following from it.  This work is therefore of both technical and historic
relevance.
 
The book also contains a reprint of RFC (Request for Comments) 62 by Dave
Walden (on interprocess communications) and RFC 89 by Metcalfe, discussing
activities in the first year of development of what would become the Internet.
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996   BKPKTCOM.RVW   960424

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