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> but the interesting parts of Bell Labs, i.e. the ones we use today (UNIX, C, etc) wasn't any "fundamental research" either.

What about transistors? Don't we use them today?




We do, but that's not the part of Bell Labs people usually reminisce about in a programming context or the era TFA talks about.




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