Terry Shannon (IT)

Terry Shannon (IT)

Terry Craig (T.C.) Shannon (August 16, 1952 – May 26, 2005) was an information technology consultant, journalist and author. For over 30 years, he was involved in implementing PDP, VAX, and Alpha computers with their respective operating systems RSX, VAX/VMS; and OpenVMS & Windows NT. He was a respected journalist and analyst, paying particular attention to HP/Compaq and the high-performance computing space, writing a series of newsletters.

He has been credited with assigning Intel Corporation the nickname "Chipzilla".

Terry Shannon participated and spoke at meetings of DECUS (the Digital Equipment Corporation Users Society), the international users group of DEC, currently known as Encompass. He also spoke as an authority at other IT and HPC conferences, and was quoted by other authors as an authority on the subject.

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