(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)