I know the answer to this one guys! 5 years ago I had the unfortunate job
of working in a mixed Cabletron and Cisco environment. As I was looking
around in one of our routers in NY I saw that the device was running IOS.
So I replied to my mentor, "I thought that you said this was a Cabletron
box"? "It is" he said. You see Cabletron licensed the IOS software from
Cisco many years ago to run on some of their boxes. I can see where some
folks might get this confused. I still have two of these devices sitting in
my storage room.
Tim LeBrun
CCNA, CCDA
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From: Paul Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 1:55 PM
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Subject: Re: Subject: Re: CCIE #7354 - for Jeff McCoy [7:3998]
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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