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That page does tell you Len Bosack founded XKL but IIRC (that was long ago!) it was Cisco’s original plan to make a PDP-10 clone, and they sold SUNET routers to fund the work. It was a rather successful pivot to make the routers the main business.

Another company that used that same hardware to get going was Sun Microsystems, though their initial plan didn’t change.






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