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Ah brings back memories of Bob Metcalfe. Out of college I worked for him at 3Com. We were making about three million NIC's a month, and it was like a cash machine. One of my first projects to support was trying to develop WIFI. We failed at that. Then Intel integrated the NIC capability into their chipsets. Cisco made better switches and routers. We went from a high flying silicon valley company to nothing.


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