[LeoPanthera]

In fact, AT&T agreed not to enter the computer market in return for being allowed to maintain a monopoly. They agreed to the 1984 breakup only in return for being allowed to make computers - a decision which did not go well, since their computer line was never very successful.

[wkat4242]

In terms of strategy it's not a bad move though, after all the computer (and by extension the smartphone) did become the new telephone. Pretty much all phones even run an OS with Unix-like underpinnings.

They just failed to capitalise on it but it was a pretty good vision IMO.

[pjmlp]

Which was also when the lawsuit against BSD came to be, and the attempt to forbid the Lion's Books to keep being printed.

Which only goes to show what have happened to UNIX outside Bell Labs if it was a commercial product from day 1.

[zakki]

In 1995 I was an intern at Indosat, a telephone company in Indonesia. Indosat bought billing system from ATT and also some PCs from them (maybe the PCs were part of the deal). That is how I experienced the speed of a Pentium PC for the first time.