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There are many variations of this story out there. A few: * Interview with Bill Yeager https://www.networkworld.com/article/847852/lan-wan-router-man.html https://www.networkworld.com/article/847852/lan-wan-router-m... (of note: gives credit for the early hardware architecture used through the Cisco AGS+ to Andy Bechtolsheim) * Tom Rindfleisch at Stanford, very similar to Yeager's story https://web.stanford.edu/~tcr/tcr-cisco.html https://web.stanford.edu/~tcr/tcr-cisco.html * Slightly more favorable to the Cisco founders https://historyofcomputercommunications.info/section/14.21/cisco-Systems/ https://historyofcomputercommunications.info/section/14.21/c...