Jeremy -- Sytek - that was it -- thank you.   Sunnyvale/Mt. View -- who can
tell the difference?  ;-)

Thanks again,
Clem

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:21 AM <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, Clem Cole wrote:
>
> ...
> > kernel support to?handle?select(2) properly).? I remember talking to Sam
> (arguing
> > with him most probably) about it one night before it was fully created.?
> ?Iwant
> > to say, he had worked on something similar at the firm he was at (the
> firm
> > name I now forget -- si-mumble -- they were in Mt. View) before he joined
> > CRSG.? I don't remember now the issues I had, but I do remember it was a
> bit
> > of mess to support the way the AP hardware assumed it could do DMA on the
> > UBA[2]
>
> From my notes:
>
> After graduating, Leffler got a job in the Silicon Valley
> at Sytek, a small firm in Sunnyvale.
> % CITE: archives/csrg-archives/disk1/mnt/2.79/usenet/netdir/sites/sytek
> They used a PDP 11/45 and moved to a VAX 11/750 running VM/UNIX
> with four 300 baud ACU's (Automatic Call Units aka ``modems``) ---
> they marketed a broadband network to
> connect thousands of stations using coaxial cable over a distance
> of 40 miles.
> % maybe CITE:
> http://books.google.com/books?id=AyZfLaxYr9YC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=
>
> %28408%29+734-9000++sytek&source=bl&ots=SYGI9rBAOV&sig=rxBo1SgfqdTLuNotXaa59nrR6
>
> C4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CzbwUJTjI6HN2QX48oGIAw&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%28408%29%20
> 734-9000%20%20sytek&f=false
> <http://books.google.com/books?id=AyZfLaxYr9YC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=%28408%29+734-9000++sytek&source=bl&ots=SYGI9rBAOV&sig=rxBo1SgfqdTLuNotXaa59nrR6C4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CzbwUJTjI6HN2QX48oGIAw&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%28408%29%20734-9000%20%20sytek&f=false>
> Since they were using a VAX and he had kept in touch with Joy, he was
> a beta-test site for 4BSD.\cite{salus1994}
>
> % NOTE: about sytek: an ad to find employees
> %
> http://books.google.com/books?id=ChMAmfS1nEkC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=%28408%29+734
>
> -9000++sytek&source=bl&ots=aS_yQznXAy&sig=6vA7NTbspu3gcf_jT2sOiUSRPZU&hl=en&sa=X
>
> &ei=CzbwUJTjI6HN2QX48oGIAw&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%28408%29%20734-9000%20%2
> 0sytek&f=false
> <http://books.google.com/books?id=ChMAmfS1nEkC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=%28408%29+734-9000++sytek&source=bl&ots=aS_yQznXAy&sig=6vA7NTbspu3gcf_jT2sOiUSRPZU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CzbwUJTjI6HN2QX48oGIAw&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%28408%29%20734-9000%20%20sytek&f=false>
>
> % NOTE: not to take over since no Sun then
> Leffler went to Berkeley to work with Joy\cite{billshannon2} in the
> fall of 1981.\cite{salus1994}.
>