Lucent Technologies

<company, telecommunications, Unix, C> (Formerly, "AT&T", "American Telephone and Telegraph, Inc.") One of the largest US telecommunications providers. Also noted for being the birthplace of the {Unix} {operating system} and the {C} and {C++} programming languages.

AT&T was incorporated in 1885, but traces its lineage to Alexander Graham Bell and his invention of the telephone in 1876. As parent company of the former {Bell System}, AT&T's primary mission was to provide telephone service to virtually everyone in the United States. In its first 50 years, AT&T established subsidiaries and allied companies in more than a dozen other countries. It sold these interests in 1925 and focused on achieving its mission in the United States. It did, however, continue to provide international long distance service.

The Bell System was dissolved at the end of 1983 with AT&T's divestiture of the Bell telephone companies. AT&T later changed its name to "Lucent Technologies" [when?].

See also {3DO}, {Advanced RISC Machine}, {Berkeley System Distribution}, {Bell Laboratories}, {Concurrent C}, {Death Star}, {dinosaurs mating}, {InterNIC}, {System V}, {Nawk}, {Open Look}, {rc}, {S}, {Standard ML of New Jersey}, {Unix International}, {Unix conspiracy}, {USG Unix}, {Unix System Laboratories}.

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(2001-07-12)