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Bill Joy

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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.


— Bill Joy


#display #dot #laser #matrix #media

But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.


— Bill Joy


#i #mistakes #spelling #trouble

But with Interleaf I don't even have a spell program.


— Bill Joy


#i #interleaf #program #spell

Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.


— Bill Joy


#displays #document #large #preparation #require

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.


— Bill Joy


#code #display #gave #had #i

I just don't like to lose what's in the window.


— Bill Joy


#just #like #lose #window

I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor.


— Bill Joy


#albany #apartment #ask #call #carter

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.


— Bill Joy


#after #ago #days #done #editor

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.


— Bill Joy


#come #community #editors #i #i think

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.


— Bill Joy


#complaining #complicated #editor #got #hard






About Bill Joy

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Did you know about Bill Joy?

He has once said "My method is to look at something that seems like a good idea and assume it's true". He played an integral role in the early development of BSD UNIX while a graduate student at Berkeley and he is the original author of the vi text editor.

Joy co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla Scott McNealy and Andreas von BechtolBill Joyim and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. He also wrote the essay "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" in which he expressed deep concerns over the development of modern technologies.

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