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From: wclark@csi.3Com.Com (Wayne Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
Subject: Re: Looking for a Good Reference on SNA
Keywords: ibm, sna
Message-ID: <1506@csib.csi.3Com.Com>
Date: 2 Oct 89 16:51:34 GMT
References: <8909292321.AA07710@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: wclark@csib (Wayne Clark)
Organization: Communications Solutions Inc., San Jose, Ca
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In article <8909292321.AA07710@jade.berkeley.edu> Matt Burdick  writes:
>> Anybody know of a good introductory reference on SNA in particular and
>> (possibly) IBM protocols in general?
>
>Try "SNA: IBM's Networking Solution" by James Martin
>
>Published by Prentice-Hall.
>
>I contains a good overview of the SNA protocol as well as layer-by-layer
>detailed descriptions.
>
>                                                        -matt
>--
>Matt Burdick                    | Hewlett-Packard
>burdick%hpda@hplabs.hp.com      | Technical Communications Lab  (IND/TCL)

A slightly older but more comprehensive text for the "traditional" SNA is
"SNA: Theory and Practive" by Anura Guruge, Pergamon Infotech Limited, 1984.
The Martin book is also quite good, but it is an introductory text.  As
mentioned perviously, the book by Anton Meijer is quite terse, but it does
a good job of introducing LU 6.2 and NT 2.1 into the context of the 
then-current SNA.
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Wayne Clark
IBM Connectivity Operations, 3Com Corporation
(formerly Communications Solutions, Inc.)

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