On 1/6/06, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That was until orders from BillG instructed Cutler to integrate the Win32API
> from being a subsystem right into NT's kernel... even Cutler's team (with his
> "I will not put that crap into NT" speech) weren't at all able to make upper
> management retract their instruction to bolt in Win32 as a direct kernel
> personality into the core of NT.
>
> In paper, NT was great (many subsystems support such as POSIX, Win32,
> OS/2, VMS,
> etc, then the original portability goal, fine-grained ACL's,
> microkernel design,
> multi-threaded execution) but in reality, a horrible mess as its team had to
> lean back and incorporate many very stupid decisions from management.
... which is documented in great detail in G. Pascal Zachary's book
"Showstopper!", a look into the creation of Windows NT inside
Microsoft. Required reading for anyone who wants to understand both
Microsoft in particular and software system building and its quirks
(at the human factor level) in general.
(FWIW, yes, I've read the book. Found my copy at a Booksale branch.)
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Book: If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a
very special level of Hell, a level they reserve for child
molesters and people who talk at the theater.
(Firefly, "Our Mrs. Reynolds")
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