Then there is Mr. Campbell, a former chief executive of companies like Intuit; Go, a renowned but failed maker of a pen computer; and Claris, which made software for Macintosh computers.

While Jobs praised the Intel processors used in Apple’s Macintosh computers, he said the processor giant was “too slow.”

Charles Macintosh, who has no connection whatsoever to the computer of the same name, is born in Glasgow, Scotland.