3 ms·
I came here to say exactly that. However, in one sense of the word, we do owe a lot of the modern tech stack to ATT. Between their invention of transistors, a
by drewg123 4y ago
I came here to say exactly that.
However, in one sense of the word, we do owe a lot of the modern tech stack to ATT. Between their invention of transistors, and their invention of UNIX, they do form the basis of the modern tech stack that all these inventions depend on.
(and yes, I know we're not running AT&T UNIX, but BSD was derived from it, and Linux / Minix etc were inspired by UNIX).
- kube-system 4y agoNo doubt. But it's just even more ironic that other people took the phone company's technology to build the phone company's vision just shows how much they squandered their potential. Cash cows really are a death knell for progress.