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I remember just three things about the book "Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft" (1994): the death marc
by lazyant 10y ago
I remember just three things about the book "Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft" (1994): the death march, that they tested the OS by writing a file over and over (!) and that they thought the graphic part written in the new object-oriented C++ would save them a lot of time (it didn't)
- mark_h 10y agoYeah, fascinating book; weren't the graphics issues due in part to the lack of maturity of C++ tools at the time though? (I don't remember exactly because it has been a while since I read it)