That's odd.  I was not aware of these salient facts you have 
delineated below.  I guess I must have been working with a 
misunderstanding here.  My understanding is that the origins of 
the Cisco Internetworking Operating System (IOS) is most 
closely aligned from the TOPS-20 programming language.  This 
was relayed to me by one of the three team members who wrote 
the original command line help (on or about IOS version 9.11 or 
thereabouts).  He also happened to be the first CCIE outside of 
Cisco and the second CCIE in the world.  I guess he could have 
been mistaken.  Maybe this guy might be able to shed some light:

http://www.clock.org/~fair/education.html

As far as the origins of Cisco as a company are concerned, 
their history is fairly well documented.  The original founders 
were Sandy Lerner and Len Bozack.  They were at Stanford at the 
time and they needed a device that would pass network packets 
across the campus.  This ultimately ended up taking the form of 
a multi-protocol router.  You can read about it here:

http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/serving_suits/cisco.html

As it turns out, Sandy is still controversial and frequently 
makes the local papers (washington Post et al) on things she is 
doing.  She still lives on the horse farm out in Loudoun 
County, Virginia.

Have a nice day.

v/r,

Paul Werner


> Ha ha you guys are too funny, but failed to contribute 
anything of
> substance. Way to go newbies and wannabies. LOL!
> 
> BTW, youngen Eric, I was troubleshooting Cabletrons b4 there 
was Cisco.
> And
> the relationship? Guess where Cisco and IOS came from? 
CABLETRON. You
> learn
> something new everyday don't ya newbie.

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