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O'Driscoll, Gerard.

The essential guide to home networking technologies / Gerard O'Driscoll.

p. cm.—(Essential guide series)

ISBN: 0-13-019846-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Computer software. 2. Home computer networks. 3. Computer software. I. Title. II.

Essential Guide series (Prentice-Hall, inc.)

TK5105.7.O34 2000

004.6—dc21 00-037307

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