Years prior to the Internet do not exist. And you can't prove otherwise.
Employee
number
CCCLXXII (from
14Jul97 ) to Jan06 of
The toaster company .
What does Mr Burns think of appliances ?
A learned scientific experiment with them
... if you need yet more.. much, much more
Prior to that, at Prior prior to that, I worked for BNR (the research wing of Nortel) on the first
digital telephone switch, handily beating these ATT guys, up in the Great White North, eh.
Prior prior prior to that, in the first of my 3 emigrations (so far), this time
to England, I worked on the Plessey PP250 machine, a capability-based
fault-tolerant processor for British Telecomm (and, secretly, the UK DoD- shhhhh).
Bet you've never heard of it.
Reverendhood was achieved in 2000; here's the proof .
and the accompanying letter with the bylaws; pity about the no-circumcision rule.
Tandem for (gulp) 18 years. (Despite Tom Mendoza's later
occasional statements
to the contrary, I did not invent clustering or fault tolerance there). I did work on various
parts of the OS. And I did write (though keep it a secret, please) the first SMB (aka CIFS)
file server outside of MSFT and IBM/Sybase, back in 1985. All part of the eventual Master
Plan, I suppose. (I recall one Mike Malcolm telling me, one day at Tandem, that he was
working with these two whizkid programmers, and he was going to start a company to
produce NFS file servers, which were appliances. I said, "sure, Mike", and went about
my business. He became the first CEO of NetApp, and the two were Hitz and Lau. ..Add
audio link here, with a Homeric "Doh!"... Eventually, I saw the error of my ways...)
