Gene Hughes

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Died(2021-02-22)February 22, 2021
OccupationComputer scientist
Era~1980-1990's

Gene Hughes (died Feb. 22, 2021[1]) was a Computer Scientist at Datapoint Corporation.

Notable work

  • Assisted with the creation of ARCNET.[2]
  • Author of the ATA NetBIOS.[2]
  • Designed DataPoint's Advanced Systems Language.[2][3]

History

Gene Hughes was hired by Datapoint at some point before 1983, and then left before 1998 and got a job with the IP Appliance Group of Northern Telecom (now known as Nortel)[2]

References

  1. "In Memoriam – Datapoint Remembered". Retrieved 2025-09-22.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 https://www.arcnet.cc/resources/HistoryATA.pdf, page 15, archived at https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_datapointatworking1998_143966/page/n13/mode/2up
  3. http://bitsavers.org/pdf/datapoint/software/The_DASL_Document_Feb83.pdf, page 0 archived at https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_datapointsentFeb83_4742905

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