william joy

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<person> (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. [Book ref? E-mail?]

(2000-10-30)