Sun
In 1982, after the firm had been going for six months, Joy was brought in with full co-founder status at Sun Microsystems.
In 1986, Joy was awarded a Grace Murray Hopper Award by the ACM for his work on the Berkeley UNIX Operating System.
At Sun, Joy was an inspiration for the development of NFS, the SPARC microprocessors, the Java programming language, Jini / JavaSpaces and JXTA.
On September 9, 2003 Sun announced that Bill Joy was leaving the company and that he "is taking time to consider his next move and has no definite plans".
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The shadows of the lovers have disappeared.
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They want me to be more serious than I want to be.”
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