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Lee McMahon
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Lee E. McMahon (1941-1989) is the person after whom McMahon tournaments are named. Biography
In 1970, McMahon was a research department head at Bell Labs who realized the benefits of the new Unix operating system for text processing. He convinced the management to buy a new PDP-11 computer which became an important milestone in the Unix development.
McMahon's contributions to Unix include implementations of Links
DiscussionRobertJasiek: How reliable is the evidence for the spelling of his name? (Mc or Mac?)
SAS: It's certainly Mc. His name often comes up in accounts of the early history of Unix (e.g., This is a copy of the living page "Lee McMahon" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |