For those interested in the topic, there’s a fascinating book “Show Stopper” detailing the making of NT. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1416925.Show_Stopp

For those interested in the topic, there’s a fascinating book “Show Stopper” detailing the making of NT. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1416925.Show_Stopper_ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1416925.Show_Stopper_ The core NT design with its kernel personalities is what allowed them to things like adding linux support, but in the book they describe there was so much pushback because it pushed ram requirements up to 8 mb (outside the abilities of consumer pc’s at the time) that Gates himself had to intervene several times to keep Cutler’s architecture intact. I also really loved the bits about Cutler’s personality. They came across as more myth than fact but you do get the sense that working for him must have been a singular experience.