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

[Barbara Denny]

 It wasn't unusual to receive new chips from Cisco/Greg to fix bugs in the router. SRI was rotating people in and out of Germany to support this effort so if I am  remembering right, people were just asked to bring the chips over on their flight. I do know Greg came to Heidelberg at least once after the initial installation of the test bed.
barbara
    On Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 04:20:39 PM PST, Greg Skinner <gregskinner0 at icloud.com> wrote:  
 
 As i recall, he worked on the X.25 implementation for the cisco release that was used during the Able Archer exercise in the fall of 1987.  There were problems with it during the exercise, requiring him to come to Heidelberg to discuss solutions.

> On Feb 2, 2025, at 4:14 PM, Barbara Denny via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> It was probably Greg.  I worked with him debugging the Cisco router box for the USAREUR effort.  This testbed also used x.25. (BTW, Greg's office was very close to mine when he worked at SRI).
> barbara
>    On Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 03:53:15 PM PST, Craig Partridge via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:  
> 
> On Sun, Feb 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM Jack Haverty via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> 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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