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

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 03-Nov-22 13:36, vinton cerf via Internet-history wrote:
> I thought that Tim Berners-Lee's browser was text based?

Actually that one was written by Nicola Pellow, who was a student interning at CERN, and it was the second browser. I was a beta user.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Pellow

The first one, Tim wrote on a Next, which limited the user base rather severely.

    Brian

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> On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 12:33 PM the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via
> Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> EXCERPT:
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>> 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
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>> [...]
>> https://www.tcracs.org/tcrwp/1origin-of-cisco/
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