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The Data Communications Industry

Motorola / Codex Corporation- Mansfield MA. needed an HDLC communications stack built from scratch to run on a communications coprocessor card plugged into an IBM PC ISA Bus. This board ran the Hunter and Ready VRTX (UNIX on a chip) operating system. The product was compiled using cross compilers that ran on networked UNIX Workstations.

MCI Corporation- Colorado Springs CO. needed a multithreaded interface designed and implemented to an APPC communications stack. This access point acts as a remote server and synchronizes a connected, Local Area network's windows based PCs and their data base engines with database engines running at MCI's central computer complex. This system allows MCI's top corporate customers to manage their MCI provide phone lines as if they were a private telephone network.

Cabletron Corporation- Rochester NH. needed their Spectrum Local Area Network Management System ported to IBM's UNIX OS, AIX. This port of the one and one half man century product was my baptism in fire to the C++ programming language. The Cabletron approach was to use cfront to convert their C++ into mangled c code. Of course, they provided minimalist debug environment to further enhance this learning experience.

FedEx Corporation- Memphis TN. helped build the first SDLC communications network incorporated to run their nationwide tracking system.

Honeywell / Bull Corporation- Billerica MA. - designed and managed the coding of OSI Layers 6, 5, and 4 of their New Terminal Diver System for Local Area Networks. These layers are used throughout their mainframe, mini and micro computer product lines.
 

 

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