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How long does a 100k+ employee company get credit for something a small handful of their employees did almost half a century ago? Not that C wasn't an achieveme
by jamesaguilar 13y ago
How long does a 100k+ employee company get credit for something a small handful of their employees did almost half a century ago? Not that C wasn't an achievement but . . .
- mehrzad 13y agoI take my point back as the AT&T of today is not the same as it was back then, but the fact that the company funded this research is what makes it admirable.
- flomo 13y agoThe old monopoly AT&T wasn't just a company but presented itself as an American institution. They heavily publicized their Bell Labs inventions to help keep the anti-trust regulators off their back. Unix/C certainly benefited from this.