[ih] Cisco origins (Was: when did APRANET -TIPs become known as -TACs)

[Guy Almes]

Tony,
   ;-)

   Thoroughly believable.
   Not that the Stanford endowment has ever really suffered, but one 
wonders how they'd be doing if, back in spring 1987, Stanford had just 
asked for, say, 10% of cisco's equity.
	-- Guy

On 9/30/25 3:05 PM, Tony Li wrote:
> Hi,
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> Again, I’m not able to post to I-H, so please feel free to forward.
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>>  But for reasons that relate largely to the legal dispute, tellings of the story often suppressed to avoid embarrassing a major corporation.
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>>  I'd be interested in any corrections or improvements to the outline above.
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> One perhaps relevant additional rumor:
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> After cisco IPO’ed, there was allegedly also the threat of a subequent lawsuit from Stanford. However, the Stanford endowment folks pointed out that they had invested heavily in Wall Street darling cisco and that suing would have had the net effect of damaging Stanford.  Instead, talks ensued and cisco made a major contribution to Stanford. So everyone kissed and made up.  No further embarassment.
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> T
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