Not really, except to the extent that: (1) I was doing my graduate work at WPI in 1976-79; (2) I was working at DEC at the time (and going to school at night); (3) My job at DEC focused on the 10 Mb/s Ethernet design and the writing of the original DIX specifications; and (4) DEC was developing the VAX product line at the same time.
Before going to the Ethernet project, I did some signal integrity work on the VAX 11/780 (code-named Star). While the VAX 750 (code-named Comet) and VAX 730 (code-named Nebula) were being designed in the same building where I worked (an abandoned and converted shopping mall in Tewksbury, MA), I didn't have much to do with them. My thesis involved the development of methodology for analyzing signal behavior on long transmission lines, which came directly from my Ethernet work.
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