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Networking API and protocol

NetBIOS, or Network Basic Input/Output System, is an API that provides services related to the session layer of the OSI model, allowing applications on separate computers to communicate over a local area network. NetBIOS is not a networking protocol; NetBIOS API requests and responses can be transported over several protocols. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: NetBIOSA 5-minute orientation
  2. Pick up a classic book: C programmerʼs guide to NetBIOSThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  3. Read the landmark paper: Integrated robot control using manufacturing message specification protocol based on NetBIOSCited 2 times
  4. Go sideways: NetBIOS over TCP/IPA closely related topic
  5. Go sideways: Network socketA closely related topic

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