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I’ll recommend here the book “Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft”, which someone else recommended a few
by jmmv 3y ago
I’ll recommend here the book “Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft”, which someone else recommended a few weeks ago. Link:
I’m still reading it, but it’s really enjoyable. And it makes me wish I had been part of that history. Particularly the whole thing about dogfooding a brand new OS. But it caught me a few years too early.
- _mlvljr 3y agoHow about https://www.amazon.com/Barbarians-Bill-Gates-Jennifer-Edstrom/dp/0805057544 https://www.amazon.com/Barbarians-Bill-Gates-Jennifer-Edstro... ? :)
- dblohm7 3y agoAlso a great book
- reubenswartz 3y agoGreat book. I remember reading it on the flight out to a job interview with an OS team. Thanks to the book, I sounded much more knowledgable than I really was, and I was more excited about the whole space than I had been a few days earlier. ;-) (Got the offer, but didn't end up taking the job.)
- dewey 3y agoI came here to mention exactly that, I read it a few months ago and really enjoyed it too. Relevant too: https://blog.codinghorror.com/showstopper/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/showstopper/
- trentnelson 3y agoFantastic book that had a huge impact on me. I reached out to the author on Twitter way back to tell him how much I liked it, and he was really nice.