William Joy
Bill Joy
Joy, William
<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}.
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(2000-10-30)