(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://www.sun.com/aBoutsun/media/ceo/mgt_joy.html)}. See also dinosaur. [Book ref? E-mail?] (2000-10-30)