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...year), as have equipment sales to phone companies (1986 earnings: $375 million), but many new lines of business are lagging. AT&T lost between $700 million and $1 billion this year on sales of computers and large computerized phone systems. The firm's 7300 series personal computers and its Unix computer operating system, which were introduced in 1985 just as the industry-wide computer slump was deepening, are still selling slowly. In addition, the phone- rental business has been weakened. During the past two years, as business and residential customers returned their rented AT&T phones to the company...
...future looks bright for the firm. They have written books to accompany Digital's courseware and have basically taught AT&T's salesmen, "salesmen who before were just selling telephones," how to use their minicomputer, the UNIX PC. In fact, many retail stores selling AT&T computers now use the demo the two wrote to show off the features of the UNIX...
Various kinds of software now give instructions to computers. Systems software controls the parts of a computer, including the video screen, the central processing unit and the disc drives, and makes them work together. Though sold under obscure brand names like CP/M, MS-DOS and UNIX, systems software for personal computers can be highly profitable, and last year sales totaled $500 million...
Calif, created the first popular one, CP/M, but it has been supplanted by MS-DOS, which was developed by Microsoft for the IBM Personal Computer. In addition, AT&T is promoting UNIX, a system particularly efficient at performing several different tasks at once and communicating with other computers...
...breakup, the company for more than 30 years has been developing and building them for telephone-call switching, billing and other internal needs. In 1947 scientists at A T& T's Bell Laboratories invented the transistor, which laid the foundation for microchips. The company also created the UNIX computer operating system, which has been licensed to more than 2,200 businesses, universities and government agencies in the U.S. and ten other countries since the early...