b. 1954, Farmington Hills, Michigan · BSD Unix; author of vi and csh; co-founder of Sun Microsystems
Also known as: Joy, William Nelson Joy
Bill Joy was the principal architect of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) at UC Berkeley, contributing virtual memory, TCP/IP networking, the Berkeley Fast File System, and job control to the Unix lineage Linux inherited from.
He wrote vi in 1976 and the C shell (csh). Every modern vim and the BSD-derived tools used across Linux descend from his work.
Related people: Ken Thompson, Bram Moolenaar
Works cited in this book:
- An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi (1979) (with Mark Horton)
- A Fast File System for UNIX (1984) (with Marshall K. McKusick, Samuel J. Leffler, Robert S. Fabry)
Discussed in:
- Chapter 15: Editors: vi, Vim, and Nano · The Vi/Vim Lineage
