The Cabletron routing card, for a long time, was an IGS router card
mechanically modified to fit into Cabletron's form factor. Cisco and
Cabletron had a really big fight about licensing a few years ago, and
Cisco very ostentatiously withdrew the agreement.
This whole thread does have its silliness. I was doing
internetworking long before Cisco was founded. Try asynchronous
process control between PDP-8 instrument controllers and PDP-11
timesharing machines (1970), Uniscope 300 on UNIVAC running EXEC 8
(1967), IBM BSC remote batch (1971), etc. MITRENET broadband LANs in
the late 70s. Later, at Telenet, it was a big step to go from our
Prime minicomputer routers to the custom-built multi-6502 packet
switches. My first IP was on Sun 3's.
Newbies and wannabes. Yup.
Haven't seen you at the IETF, NANOG, RIPE, or IRTF, Q. Written any
RFC's lately? Architected any routers? Developed protocol
conformance or performance tests?
Hey, it's been a long week.
>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
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 1:55 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>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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