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I love books about writing/creating new software/hardware. One I can recommend, about Windows NT is: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Show-Stopper-Breakneck-Windows-Gen

I love books about writing/creating new software/hardware. One I can recommend, about Windows NT is: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Show-Stopper-Breakneck-Windows-Generation-Microsoft/dp/0029356717 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Show-Stopper-Breakneck-Windows-Gene... Does anyone here know about any book(s) on the VAX, or indeed on any of DEC's machines, or IBM's stuff (which were - probably still are - beautifully engineered) come to that? I'm aware of "Big Blue", but that is mostly about IBM business practices.

pinewurst 2y ago
IBM's Early Computers A Technical History by Charles J. Bashe, Emerson W. Pugh, John H. Palmer and Lyle R. Johnson IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems by Emerson W. Pugh, Lyle R. Johnson and John H. Palmer Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design by C. Gordon Bell (Author), J. Craig Mudge John E. McNamara
sillywalk 2y ago
Inside the AS/400 by Frank Soltis, is a deep dive into IBM's AS/400 and its predecessor the System/38. Quite interesting. There is a 2nd or 3rd edition called Fortress Rochester: Inside the iSeries, but it tends to be hard to find and expensive. [0] https://archive.org/details/insideas4000000solt/ https://archive.org/details/insideas4000000solt/
ghaff 2y ago
That's probably the other product development book I'd most recommend after Soul of a New Machine. Also Mythical Man Month but mostly for historical reasons and probably a couple of the essays provide the most important flavoring.