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Ethernet Creator Makes the Inventors Hall of Fame

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the making-the-grade dept.

An anonymous reader wrote in with a Network World story that opens, "Ethernet is right up there with magnetic resonance imaging, the LP record, air bags, and soft contact lenses. So says the National Inventors Hall of Fame, which included Bob Metcalfe, inventor of the ubiquitous LAN technology, in its latest round of inductees."

3 of 45 comments (clear)

  1. I can think of one company who wouldn't be in list by itz2000 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well.. it's Microsoft, and the reason they won't get into inventors Hall of Fame is because :

    THEY DIDN'T INVENT ANYTHING!

  2. "I invented the internet" by Doc+Hoss · · Score: -1, Troll

    Al Gore's going to be pissed...and maybe a little jealous.

  3. Re:Kinda spoilt... by FishWithAHammer · · Score: 1, Troll

    So in other words, he's an asshat on the scale of RMS.

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    "You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."