William Yeager

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William Yeager (born June 16, 1940 in San Francisco ), often called Bill Yeager , is an American engineer.

Yeager worked for four years at NASA's AMES research laboratory on the Pioneer program. He then went to Stanford University for almost 20 years . There he wrote a serial FTP program in 1979 , which was later renamed Kermit after a revision at Columbia University .

Around 1980, together with Sandra Lerner and Len Bosack , the founders of Cisco , he developed multi- protocol routers that were licensed by Cisco in 1986.

It was there that he also devised the basics for IMAP and wrote the first IMAP server for UNIX .

He has been with Sun Microsystems since 1994 , where he worked on various programs.

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