[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Main, Kerry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On
> Behalf Of Neil Rieck
> Sent: November-15-09 7:29 AM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.
> 
> On Nov 14, 7:13 am, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next
> > Generation at Microsoft (Hardcover) 1994 by G. Pascal
> Zacharyhttp://www.amazon.com/Show-Stopper-Breakneck-Generation-
> Microsoft/dp/...
> >
> > Showstopper! the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next
> > Generation at Microsoft (Paperback) 2009 by G. Pascal
> Zacharyhttp://www.amazon.com/Showstopper-Breakneck-Windows-Generation-
> Micros...
> >
> > Quote: Showstopper! is a vivid account of the creation of Microsoft
> > WindowsNT, perhaps the most complex software project ever undertaken.
> > It is also a portrait of David Cutler, NT's brilliant and, at times,
> > brutally aggressive chief architect.
> >
> > OK so I couldn't help myself. I just ordered this book.
> >
> > Neil Rieck
> > Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
> > Ontario, Canada.http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/
> 
> There is probably something weird happening when people entertain
> themselves with the accomplishments of a bygone era.
> 
> 1) The 1981 book "The Soul Of A New Machine" was republished in 2000.
> 
> 2) The 1984 book "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" was
> republished in 2001.
> 
> 3) The 1994 book "Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows
> NT and the Next" was republished in 2009.
> 
> Just an observation.
> 
> NSR
> _______________________________________________

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