OT: old Ciscos, was Re: [HECnet] Ethernet Marks 40 Years Linking People, Computers in a Wired World

[Dave McGuire]

On 05/24/2013 07:00 PM, Peter Lothberg wrote:
Funny you should mention the keyword NuBus in your presentation. Yes
the Apple Mac II machines used it. They licensed it from TI, who
developed it while exploring the wonders of Lisp. Anyone here remember
the Lisp Machines that were extremely popular once?

  Oh yes, I have several of them here, all Symbolics.   A 3640, 3645, and an
XL1201.

One was made by TI. And it used that expansion bus.

  Yes, the TI Explorer.   I hadn't remembered that that was where NuBus came
from.   Neat.   Then it's less of a happenstance thing that Cisco used it,
given their Lisp connections back then.

???

There is no   NuBus in cisco land...   There is PCI (VIP/7200 port adapters)

  I believe it was you yourself who introduced me to Cbus and explained that
it was a NuBus implementation, at Digex in '93, I think when you brought us
that IGS with some pre-release code on it to do our first real BGP peering.

  I would be happy to stand corrected, however.

                          -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA