< 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 .
See also dinosaur .
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