The Economist on the invention and emergence of Ethernet
12 October 2003
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The Economist Technology Quarterly, September 6th 2003
The Economist on the invention and emergence of Ethernet.
“As with so many scientific breakthroughs, Mr Metcalfe’s ideas did not so much break new ground as take existing concepts and put them together in a new way.”
“One might argue that Mr Metcalfe’s biggest contribution to Ethernet was not inventing it, but getting Xerox to license it cheaply.”
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