[ih] origins of the term "router"

[Scott W Brim]

On 05/16/2006 17:55 PM, Noel Chiappa allegedly wrote:
>     > Is there, perhaps, a relationship between the use of the term "router"
>     > and activity of that juggernaut of routers, Cisco?
> 
> Not that I recall, but the adoption of the term, and the start of Cisco, wer
> *very* roughly contemporaneous - but I *think* the term switch predated Cisco
> somewhat. I'd have to check the details to be sure, but the people who did
> Cisco were not the people who pushed the adoption of the term.

I'm sure of that.  I remember talking to Len Bosack about "routers" when
Proteon existed but Cisco did not yet.

swb