Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Who wrote software code for a multiprotocol router in Stanford? This invention later helped Sandy Lerner and Len Bosack to build the first MPR,and found Cisco Systems to commercially manufacture them, after Stanford refused to take part.

  1. Bill Yeager

  2. Gary Kildall

  3. Bill Gates

  4. Robert Noyce
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Bill Yeager, a Stanford engineer, wrote the original software for the multiprotocol router in the 1980s. Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner used this foundation to build Cisco's first commercial routers. When Stanford declined to commercialize the technology, they founded Cisco Systems.

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