John Romkey is an American computer scientist who along with Donald W. Gillies[2] co-developed MIT PC/IP, the first TCP/IP stack in the industry for MS-DOS on the IBM PC[3][1][4][5] in 1983 while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
With Simon Hackett, Romkey connected the first appliance (a toaster) to the Internet in 1990.
[5] Romkey is currently one of the owners of Blue Forest Research, a consulting company.
FTP Software provided commercial third-party TCP/IP packages for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows.
With the advent of Microsoft's own free TCP/IP stack, codenamed "Wolverine" and first introduced as an optional extra for Windows for Workgroups 3.11, FTP Software was driven out of business, along with all the other commercial providers of TCP/IP stacks.