Additional Bibilography

The following books are worth your while reading:

Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design Second Edition George Coulouris, Jean Dollmore and Tim Kindberg. Addison-Wesley 1994.

As the title suggests this book is more oriented towards distributed systems. The book is aimed more at "discussion" courses and requires supplementary readings.

Distributed Operating Systems: Andrew S. Tanenbaum.

"The Network is the computer". Take everything you know about a single machine OS and ask how you do that when the machine is actually a network.

Data Networks. Bertsekas and Gallager.

A much more theory oriented book. Covers material on modelling network performance.

Internetworking with TCP/IP. Douglas Comer.

This three volume work, (some volumes are already in their third edition) is the best source for the internal of TCP/IP.

Power Programming with RPC. John Bloomer

A how to book from the O'Reilly and Associates series.

Unix System V network programming. Stephen A. Rago.

A good source form network programming with streams.

Unix Network programming. W. Richard Stevens

The BSD version. It has a good explanantion of how to write RPC programs.

SNMP, SNMPv2,and CMIP. William Stallings

SNMP is the Simple Network Managment Protocol.

The Mosaic Handbook. Dale Dougherty and Richard Koman.

Versions of this exist for Macs, Windows and Unix.

Core Java. Gary Cornell and Cay Horstman. 2nd Edition Prentice-Hall

One of many books on Java. Good clear explanations of how to program in Java.

Java in a Nutshell. David Flanagan. O'Reilly and Ascociates

Not a book to learn Java from but it does have the best reference for all the libraries. However this edition does not cover JDK 1.2

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