On April 22, Brian Chase wrote:
> The IEEE 802.3 standard didn't come about until a number of years later.
Oddly enough (have to toot my own horn here) when I was in my late
teens/early wenties, I worked for a tiny (floated between 2-5
employees) desktop publishing and database application development
firm called Princeton Desktop Systems, Inc., now based in Trenton, NJ.
(see
http://www.billtrak.com for what they're doing now) When I was
with them, this company did everything from building custom PeeCees
(the '386 had just come out) to refilling toner cartridges to
producing camera-ready copy for newsletters and such.
This company was founded by, and is owned & operated by, Gerald
J. Clancy, Jr., the guy who chaired the IEEE 802.3 committee. A funny
and cantakerous fellow, he's an absolutely brilliant programmer.
Earlier in life Jerry was one of the principal developers of OS/360,
and also spent some early time at Honeywell. I learned a tremendous
amount from him during the 3 or so years I worked there. His "old
school" computer science background affords him a depth of
understanding of algorithms and data structures that no
WhizBangCollegeBoyVisualBasic weenie could ever hope to achieve today.
I count myself as extremly lucky for having had a mentor of such
caliber.
-Dave McGuire
Received on Sun Apr 22 2001 - 15:15:05 BST