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Change in the Wind |
Bill Gates begins his eighth
year as head of Microsoft. Windows is in release 1.0.
TELESIS is formed in UK and
US on 01 Jan 83 as world's first international telecoms consultancy.
US Federal Court Judge
Harold H. Greene presides over the trial of the US vs. Western Electric
(AT&T) and changes the telecoms world forever.......
As a teenager Judge Greene
flees to the US from Nazi Germany, and returns to Germany as an intelligence
officer for the Allies. Following the War Greene obtains a law degree,
joins the US Department of Justice, and as Assistant to US Attorney General
Robert Kennedy writes the landmark US Civil Rights Act.
In a final consent decree
in the US vs. Western Electric trial, later known as "the Modified Final
Judgement", Greene orders that AT&T be broken up into eight companies
effective 01 January 1984, ending the largest anti-trust case in US history.
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