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Inside The Development of Windows NT

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-the-monster dept.

mrpuffypants writes "Winsupersite has a 3 part series this month about the history and development of Windows NT all the way up through Windows Server 2003. The author goes fairly in-depth describing how Windows is developed, managed, and how all 50 million+ lines are compiled daily. Part One covers the history of NT from its early days at Microsoft and Part Two discusses how the deployment of the forthcoming server version of Windows is coordinated daily." *shiver*

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  1. Show-Stopper by paul.pieralde · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I read this book years ago when I was just out of college. I found it to be a very good read and an insightful on the life of Microsoft engineers. Here is the amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0029 356717/102-2673393-2852914?vi=glance

  2. Best Quote in the Article by baldass_newbie · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "We thought, 'How hard could it be to build an OS?' and scheduled 18 months to build NT. But we had forgotten about some of the important stuff--user mode, networking, and so on."

    Too funny.

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  3. Hey, isnt... by Quai · · Score: 0, Redundant

    that a pingvin I see? Man, I didnt know that Linus had spy's inside microsofts hq!

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  4. Good book ... by kernel2 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    The book "Showstopper: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT" is actually a pretty good look into the development of NT. It covers it until NT was released, so it doesn't have any Windows 2000 or NT 4.0 specific stuff.


    Unfortunately it only seems to be available in Amazon's zShops, or B&N's used & old stuff store.