The PC-Internet Connection

Basic Information

Title: The PC-Internet Connection: TCP/IP Networking for DOS and Windows

Authors: Bernard Aboba and Britt Bassett

ISBN: 1-883979-00-5

Publisher: Internaut Books, Bellevue, Washington

Distributor: Publisher's Group West

Software: Includes disk with Chameleon Sampler, PC Eudora, WS Gopher

Updates: Includes free updates Availability: Fall, 1994

Size: 800 pages (est.), 8.5" by 11"

Price: $32.95

The PC-Internet Connection Update Pages

The PC-Internet Connection comes with free access to a World Wide Web page with links to all the software mentioned in the book. To access the updates, click here.

About the book

Want to connect your home, office or school PC to the Internet? Need to integrate PCs into your office TCP/IP network? Want to install a leased line connection or connect a bulletin board to the Internet? Want to use a PC as an Internet server for mail, FTP, news, Gopher or World Wide Web? Having trouble getting TCP/IP to work with NetWare or Windows for Workgroups? Trying to figure out what a packet driver or shim is? Need information on the latest and greatest Internet software for the PC? Heard that you can make your own router using an inexpensive PC and shareware software, but need step-by-step instruction on how it's done? This is the book for you!

This 800 page guide to TCP/IP on the PC covers all phases of connecting PCs to the Internet, including basic concepts, available software for DOS and Windows, purchasing from Internet service providers, network planning, installing hardware and software, and debugging the connections.

This is not just another Internet book. We created The PC-Internet Connection: TCP/IP Networking for DOS and Windows because we were looking for a comprehensive guide to TCP/IP networking on the PC, but couldn't find one. The book comes with a disk including Chameleon Sampler software, a fully functional dialup TCP/IP package for Windows.

If you use PCs and the Internet at work or play, you can't afford to be without The PC-Internet Connection!

About the authors

Bernard Aboba, Ph.D. is a software developer, author, and consultant. He presently holds a part-time appointment as a Senior Research Associate at the University of California, Berkeley. Credits include development of the statistics package in Quattro Pro for Windows v5.0, and dozens of articles on communications and networking appearing in a wide variety of publications. Recent books include The BMUG Guide to Bulletin Boards and Beyond and The Online User's Encyclopedia. Bernard received a B.A. in Engineering and Applied Science from Harvard College, a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering (thermosciences speciality) and a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering (numerical simulation speciality) from Stanford University, and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Britt Bassett has been involved with the Internet for more than a decade. After receiving a Masters Degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Arizona in 1980, Mr. Bassett went to work for Los Alamos National Laboratory. Since no books or courses on TCP/IP or internetworking existed, Mr. Bassett learned how to put networks together and and make connections to the ARPANET with the hands on approach. As the NSFNET started up, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado was selected as one of the new backbone sites and Mr. Bassett moved there to join NCAR's data communications staff. As co-founder of Internet One, a network consulting firm in Boulder, Colorado, Mr. Bassett has designed many aspects of the network infrastructure for a variety of Fortune 500 companies over the last three years. This book was Mr. Bassett's last project in the private sector, as he has accepted a position as the Network Manager for the NOAA Laboratories in Boulder.

Preface

Table of Contents

Understanding Cable Internet, part 1

Understanding Cable Internet, part 2

BBSNet

Installing a Leased Line

How PC-IP Came To Be

How Crynwr Software Came To Be