The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

William Joy
Bill Joy
Joy, William

    (Bill Joy) Author of the C shell and vi, he was
   also one of the people at the University of California at
   Berkeley responsible for the Berkeley Software Distribution
   of Unix.  He also wrote a book on Unix.

   He was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he is
   still (1997) Vice-President of Research.  Among his many
   projects for Sun have been helping to design the Network File
   System and the SPARC architechture.

   Biography
   (http://sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/mgt_joy.html).

   See also dinosaur.

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   (2000-10-30)