william joy

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william joy - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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)