William Joy

William Joy

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William Joy

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

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

Biography.

See also dinosaur.