[geeks] WANTED: chip level design software for UNIX/Linux

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:33:17AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:48:49AM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> > Forest Mims, the inventor of fiber optic communication. 
> 
> You have a cite/reference for this?  His Wikipedia page does not mention
> it, and neither does http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber-optic_communication
> .  He's a great electronics guy, but I don't think he invented the use of
> fiber optics for communication.

It was a well known fact. He filed an invention disclosure with Bell Labs
describing it. Bell rejected his offer and six months later announced
their invention. He sued, they lost.

Geoff.
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