William Joy

person (Bill Joy) Author of the C shell and vi, he was

also one of the people at the University of California atBerkeley 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 FileSystem and the SPARC architechture.

Biography.

See also dinosaur.

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