(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.