Someone told me once there was a good novel around the story of the development of NT4. Does anyone know about this novel, what was its name?
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The title is Show Stopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft. It's ISBN-10 is 0029356717.
TheGeekYouNeed
2010-03-28 10:53:31
Did you read it ? Would you recommend it ?
Brian Agnew
2010-03-28 10:54:36
@Brian I've read it. It's well written, and interesting if you are interested in MS's development processes and the history of NT. It's not the greatest work of reporting on the developemnt process I've ver read, but worth looking at.
anon
2010-03-28 10:56:21
I took the liberty to add a link, to what I think is the author's page. That felt cleaner than promoting Amazon here ... Not sure if there's a policy.
unwind
2010-03-28 11:03:00
Sounds good. Thx.
Brian Agnew
2010-03-28 11:13:13
excellent thanks - that rings a bell now - BY THE WAY any other good books that cover development events like this?
Greg
2010-03-28 22:25:05
@Greg "The Soul Of A New Machine" is probably the the best of the genre. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine.
anon
2010-03-29 08:58:52