Erik O'Shaughnessy

462 points
XENON coated avatar will glow red in the presence of aliens.
Austin, Tx-ish

Erik O'Shaughnessy is an opinionated but friendly UNIX system programmer living the good life in Texas. Over the last twenty years (or more!) he has worked for IBM, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and most recently Intel doing computer system performance related work. He is; a mechanical keyboard aficionado, a gamer, a father, a husband, voracious reader, student of Okinawian karate, and seriously grouchy in the morning before coffee.

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Hey there Sun alumni!

I worked in the Austin TX office from 2000 to 2017 doing performance work and x86 was definitely a dirty word for a long time at Sun. I spent the majority of my time working on SPARC hardware with some weird jaunts from time to time (AMD, firmware, service processors, architecture simulators, stuff like that).

Good advice, maybe old dogs can learn new tricks!