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Preface / Part 1: Background: Basic concepts and terminology / Commkit / Part 2: Point-to-Point Communications: Asynchronous communications / Physical connections / Testing communication systems / Part 3: Longer Distance Communications: Synchronous communications / File transfer / The telephone system/ Multiplexing / Wide area networks / Part 4: Local Area Networks: Bus local area networks / Ring local area networks / Part 5: Internetwork Communications: Layered Architectures / Interconnecting Networks/ Appendix A: An introduction to C / Appendix B: Running and testing commkit / Appendix C: State diagrams / Appendix D: Character codes / Appendix E: Single-port operations / Suggested readings / Index.

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