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John Mashey is "an ancient UNIX person," having started work on it at Bell Labs in 1973, and continuing to work there for 10 years.

Mashey joined MIPS Computer Systems in early 1985, managing operating systems development, and helping design the MIPS RISC architecture, as well as specific CPUs, systems and software. He continued similar work at Silicon Graphics (1992 ~ 2000), most recently contributing to the design of SGI's NUMAflex modular computer architecture, ending as VP and chief scientist.

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