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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

  • M.A., St. Louis University
  • Ph.D., Psychology, Harvard
  • 1963-1989 [ext] Bell Labs

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 [ext] sed (stream editor), grep (grep regular expressions), qsort (quick sort) and comm (data networking).


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RobertJasiek: 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., [ext] here), and it's always "McMahon".



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