Outliers: The Story of Success · chapter 2 · id outliers-c2-08-bill-joy-arrived-at-uc-berkele
“Bill Joy arrived at UC Berkeley in 1975 and rewrote BSD UNIX, writing much of the TCP/IP stack, the vi text editor, and the C shell. Gladwell uses this as another 10,000-hour example, but Joy's contributions involved innovation, not just accumulated practice.”
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Wikipedia: Bill Joysource alive
Joy assembled and sent out tapes of the first Berkeley Software Distribution (1BSD) in 1977. He wrote the vi text editor, the C shell, and a high-performance TCP/IP stack for Berkeley Unix.
Berkeley Engineering: Bill Joy profilesource alive
Bill Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 after his transformative work on BSD Unix at Berkeley.
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