An Interview With The Router Man

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday March 30, 2006 @10:14AM from the making-everyone-speak-the-same-language dept.

Angry_Admin writes "For Network World's 20th anniversary, they've published an interview with William (Bill) Yeager, the creator of the multiprotocol router, with some history on how Cisco came to be. As he says in the interview : 'This project started for me in January of 1980, when essentially the boss said, "You're our networking guy. Go do something to connect the computer science department, medical center and department of electrical engineering."' 6 months later he had his first working 3MBit router shoved in a closet."

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Re:And soon after... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-30 18:32 · Score: -1, Redundant

Asperger's syndrome is relatively common amongst the geek set. I think that's why you have so many /.ers obsessing over little things like this. Pedantry run amok.....

"I'm an excellent driver..."