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I know there are many legends like this, but I wouldn't be too sure about that. For example, most of the authors of the old-time classics were not employed by

by steve1977 2y ago

I know there are many legends like this, but I wouldn't be too sure about that. For example, most of the authors of the old-time classics were not employed by Microsoft when they wrote their books. I think Charles Petzold (Windows Programming) was a freelancer, Jeffrey Richter (MFC) was working a company called Wintellect, David Solomon (Inside Windows NT) had a seminar company (Solsem), I think initially primarily for VMS and Mark Russinovich (Inside Windows 2000) at Winternals Softwre.

iKlsR 2y ago
I've been digging for the article since morning, iirc it was something around directx, will update this comment when and if I can find it. It's not this link but it also touches on some of the stuff on this node https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/25955/did-microsoft-really-reserve-secret-apis-in-windows https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/25955/did...