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Cool, thanks for the writeup. Would you be able to suggest any books or other sources for further reading about this?
by howenterprisey 5y ago
Cool, thanks for the writeup. Would you be able to suggest any books or other sources for further reading about this?
- myself248 5y agoNothing off the top of my head that's succinct and readable. You'd do well to paw through the Bell Systems Technical Journal -- there's some amazing stuff in there like the origins of Unix and C [1], or Shannon's information theorem [2] -- but some details of the network itself are either hard to search for, or might not be there at all. 1: https://archive.org/details/bstj57-6-1991 https://archive.org/details/bstj57-6-1991 2: https://archive.org/details/bstj27-4-623 https://archive.org/details/bstj27-4-623 Most of the old phreak philes are focused on the billing and routing aspects of the network, not so much on transport. I remember a few test equipment manuals had good introductions to the structure of a T1 frame, for instance, but perhaps not an exhaustive treatment of how that came to be. This is an interesting question. It must be out there, mustn't it?