[ih] Internet-history Digest, Vol 63, Issue 3

[John Shoch]

Jack Havety wrote:


> Corporate networks used "multiprotocol routers" to run a simultaneous
> mix of different Internets over the same circuits and equipment they had
> purchased. ...
> During the 1990s and 2000s, I watched as all of those competitors
> disappeared.? It seemed like it happened almost overnight.? Few people
> today likely even remember they existed.??


OK, so this has provoked me to ask a trivia question, especially for all of
you who know more about Cisco than I do:
"In the early days, how many networks or protocols were handled by Cisco's
multi-protocol routers?"
I certainly don't know.  But as a starting point, the Computer History
Museum has a t-shirt on display from Cisco.
    https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102696803
Don't think I can attach a photo here, but it says on the front:  "Others
talk about it."
And on the back it says:
"Cisco Does It!"
TCP/IP
DECnet IV and V
Novell IPX
AppleTalk I and II
ISO CLNS (OSI)
SDLC Transport
Banyan VINES
Ungermann-Bass Net/One
3Com 3+/3+Open
Xerox XNS
Apollo Domain
Xerox PUP
CHAOSnet
SNA
NETBIOS
PPP
X.25
DDN X.25
Frame Relay
SMDS 802.6

I wonder if that list was sorted by market share at the time, in their
deployments......