[Info-vax] Terry Shannon - gone 10 years

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Dirk Munk skrev den 2015-06-11 17:45:
> 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.

Since you asked a second time...

Well, he would not been the only one beeing in Vietnam suffering
from depression. Had to much of that Agent Orange maybe...

I read his writings but stopped after he had expressed that he was
actualy *proud* of beeing to Vietnam. Maybe he is just one of the
100.000+ Vietnam Vets that has committed suicide after comming
home? Double the amount actualy killed in action in Vietnam, btw.

I don't know, but would not be surprised.

Terry was as much an victim of this war as anyone else.

I'm 100% sure that his death had nothing at all to do with
either Alpha or Itanium anyway...

I feel as sorry for him as for the other US'ers killed in
Vietnamn together with the over 3 million Vietnamese killed
in "The American War", as it is called over there.

Does it make any difference that he happends to knew a lot
about VMS? No, not at all, of course...