On: The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics

[miohtama]

The Nvidia lawsuit is discussed in the article.

[_DeadFred_ → miohtama]

I mean there's more to it. NVidia literally just took SGI's IP. Only more blatant start was Cisco, where they straight stole a University computer.

[takinola → _DeadFred_]

Cisco was started by a husband/wife team who were the heads of IT for the Stanford Electrical Engineering School and Business School respectively. Anecdotally, they first developed the technology trying to connect the networks for both schools.

[meekaaku → _DeadFred_]

where can i read about this cisco thing?

[vrinsd → meekaaku]

https://www.tcracs.org/tcrwp/1origin-of-cisco/