[Starlink] Fwd: [ih] "The Real Origin of Cisco Systems" by Tom Rindfleisch

[Starlink] Fwd: [ih] "The Real Origin of Cisco Systems" by Tom Rindfleisch

[Dave Taht]

I've written elsewhere about how I tried to take the death and
recycling of the linuxrouter project in stride, (
http://the-edge.blogspot.com/2003/06/wireless-connection.html ), not
quitting in a rage as dave cinege did - and I try not to express, too
often, how hard it has been to get anywhere on improving wifi.

I didn't know this history of cisco. Perversely, I feel better.

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EXCERPT:

The following account of the real origins of Cisco Systems, as opposed to
the history often recounted in Cisco company literature, was written in
1999 by Tom Rindfleisch. Rindfleisch was Director of the SUMEX-AIM project
(1973-1990), under which the software for a powerful Internet router system
was developed and widely deployed at Stanford and elsewhere for research
purposes. That code found its way, without approval from the original
developers, to form the basis of the Cisco router...

Tom Rindfleisch
Last updated April 8, 1999

[...]
https://www.tcracs.org/tcrwp/1origin-of-cisco/

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