Drew Major
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Drew Major and his partners Kyle Powell, Dale Neibaur and Mark Hurst envisioned the significance of local area networking (LAN) in 1981. By 1991, their NetWare operating system turned out to be the killer application that was powering a $40 billion dollar marketplace for network and server hardware, PCs, consulting and other assessment packages. In 1995, BYTE magazine named Drew Major one of the 20 Most prominent People for the preceding 20 years of the computer industry. He was inaugurated into the National Computer Industry Hall of Fame in 1999.