[Info-vax] Terry Shannon - gone 10 years

[Dirk Munk]

Stone Henge wrote:
> On 2015-06-11, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> wrote:
>> mcleanjoh at gmail.com wrote:
>>> I thought we should note that Terry Shannon, who needs no introduction to this groups, died 26 May 2005, which is now 10 years and 2 weeks ago.
>>>
>>> Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Shannon_(IT).
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for remembering us.
>>
>> It doesn't say anywhere why he died at such a young age, do you happen
>> to know why?
>
> Because he wrongly asserted the Alpha was the fastest CPU on earth...
>
Well, perhaps at the time it was. It had the fastest memory access, even 
years after it went out of production.

More likely he took a good look at the Itanium, and he was so shocked 
about the silly design that he had a heart attack?

But I'm still curious about why he died so young in his early fifties.