william joy
william joy
in Technology
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 (https://sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/mgt_joy.html).
See also
dinosaur
.
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(2000-10-30)