William Joy

(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 System 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://www.sun.com/corporateoverview/ceo/mgt-joy.html)}.

See also {dinosaur}.

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(1999-10-31)