On 9/15/2012 3:05 PM, allison wrote:
For openers the most famous, the transistor.
The most notable was K&R were employed by Bell Labs.. so Unix and
all the useful utilities.
I thought most of the big labs, had too much politics to get things done.
Both Unix* and the Transistor was just luck!
Bell Labs like your GPO was the local experts on
switches and all things
switching and yes, they were indeed involved. What they learned went
into their automated billing and switching systems. They were
involved with relay computers and later electronic ones as well.
Allison
Ben.
*back on topic :) DEC equipment.