This information was removed from the artilce because it was not correct  Even though this happened it happened much later and yes it was the first multiprotocol router  Leave here as a reference as I read notes that say the History section was too complex  Could someone advise       count    as part of their contract to build out the original Arpanet  The first multiprotocol router was created at Stanford University by a staff researcher named William Yeager  in January of   His boss at the time told him that he was the network guy and to find a way to connect the computers in the computer science department medical center and department of electrical engineering  He first wrote a network operating system and routing code to run on a DEC PDP  He used Alan Snyders Portable C compiler but it generated too much code so he modified the compiler to improve the code generatorsThat still wasnt good enough so he wrote an optimizer for PDP assembler that reduced the code size further