John Romkey

John Romkey, along with Donald W. Gillies[1], developed MIT PC/IP, the first TCP/IP stack in the industry for MS-DOS on the IBM PC[2][3][4][5] in 1983 while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1986, Romkey founded FTP Software, a commercial TCP/IP stack provider. Romkey authored the first network analyzer, Netwatch, predating the Network General Sniffer (see NetScout Systems), served on the IAB, and with Simon Hackett, connected the first appliance (a toaster) to the internet. Romkey is currently one of the owners of Blue Forest Research, a consulting company.

John Romkey
Born
United States
Known forPC/IP, Netwatch

FTP Software provided commercial TCP/IP packages for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. With the advent of Microsoft's own free TCP/IP stack, codenamed "Wolverine" and first introduced as an optional extra for Windows for Workgroups 3.11, FTP Software was driven out of business, along with all the other commercial providers of TCP/IP stacks.

Publications
gollark: Partitioning: dividing the disk into partitions.
gollark: So you did NOT format sdb1? Fool.
gollark: Did you format sdb1?
gollark: Or gparted.
gollark: Repartition it first?

References
  1. Donald W. Gillies, "Improved network security with a trusted email relay", bachelor's thesis, MIT, June 1984
  2. "About | romkey.com". 2011-02-17. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  4. TCP/IP
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-08-07. Retrieved 2011-11-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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