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Terry Shannon (August 16, 1952 – May 26, 2005) was an American 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 Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), currently known as Connect. He also spoke as an authority at other IT and HPC conferences, and was quoted by other authors as an authority on the subject. ==Early life== Terry Craig Shannon was born in Syracuse, New York, USA. At the age of 17 he dropped out of high school and enlisted in the US Army in 1969.〔Graham, Lamar B. (1992) "The Nerd Who Came In from the Cold", ''Boston Magazine'', February 1992, 52-55, 90-91.〕 He served as a spook in Vietnam at a Radio Reconnaissance Field Station (i.e., the 330th RRFS) with the 509th Radio Research Group of the Army Security Agency (ASA), a branch of the National Security Agency (see NSA and/or SIGINT for explanation).〔() 〕 During his two years (1970–1972) of Vietnam War service,〔 Shannon was a computer communications and traffic analysis specialist. Using his training in cryptology and signal-intelligence, his job was to triangulate North Vietnamese radio signals, request an airstrike, and then return to the original frequency and listen for the enemy channel to "go off the air."〔 He was separated from the Army with an honorable discharge in 1972. After earning his GED, Shannon received his bachelor's degree from SUNY Empire State College. He was awarded the Bronze Star, about thirty years after separation, for his service in the Vietnam War. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Terry Shannon (IT)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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