Thepopular caricature paints Jobs as a brilliant, driven man-childrunningaroundApple in sandals and shorts, screaming at underlings while trying tobuild the perfectdigitalmachine.
Working with David Liddle, who ran Xerox's office systems division, Mr Metcalfe convinced Gordon Bell, a brilliant computer scientist from the now defunct Digital Equipment Corporation, to back the Ethernet protocol.
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