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by razakel 779 days ago
AT&T invented, among other things, transistors, lasers, photovoltaic cells, CCDs, information theory, radio astronomy, C, and Unix.
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C++ too, right? Unless Bell Labs was spun out of AT&T before that. Stroustrup started C++ at Bell Labs as C with Classes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B

We are only mentioned the good things they did. ;-)
S and thus R came out of there too.