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

[Craig Partridge]

On Sun, Feb 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM Jack Haverty via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> It's hard to remember a number, but the "Cisco Does IT!" list looks
> plausible as protocols their routers supported.  I recall that there
> were a lot of choices.   Perhaps the Internet Archive has ancient
> documentation captured from cisco.com.
>
> In the early 1990s, I was "Internet Architect" at Oracle.  Our mantra
> was "Any Computer, Any Network", and we built software for all kinds of
> computers and whatever kind of network the customer might have chosen.
> "Client Server" was the buzzphrase of the day, so our mission was
> connecting clients to servers, regardless of who made the computer or
> what kind of network was involved.
>

Len Bosack (co-founder of Cisco) had a similar vision.  I remember him
talking about how the core of the Cisco software allowed one to plug in
different protocols and also layer them (e.g. once Greg Satz* got X.25
working on the Cisco box, they could do IP over X.25 but also run X.25 as
layer 3 and whatever else anyone else wanted).

Craig

*PS: My memory says it was Greg, but it is possible it was one of the other
two Cisco software wizards at the time.
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