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《Show Stopper!》
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Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation
at Microsoft (Hardcover)
by G. Pascal Zachary (Author) "Dave Cutler was reared on adversity..."
(more)
Amazon.com
Showstopper! is a vivid account of the creation of Microsoft Windows NT, 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.
Cutler surely ranks as one of the most impressive software engineers the field
has ever produced. After leading the team that created the VMS operating system
for Digital's VAX computer line--an accomplishment that most would regard as
a lifetime achievement--he went on to conceive and lead the grueling multi-year
project that ultimately produced Windows NT. Both admired and feared by his
team, Cutler would let nothing stand in the way of realizing his design and
often clashed with his programmers, senior Microsoft management, and even Gates
himself. Yet no matter how involved he became in managing his 100-programmer
team, he continued to immerse himself in every technical detail of the project
and write critical portions of the code himself.
Showstopper! is also a fascinating look at programmer and managerial culture behind the Microsoft facade. The portraits of the men and women who created NT not only reveal the brilliance of their work but the crushing stress and the dislocating effects that new wealth had on their lives. For some team members, the NT project ultimately destroyed their marriages, friendships, and virtually every human relationship outside of work. Showstopper! also reveals the uncertainties, false starts, and blind alleys that dogged the project as Microsoft repositioned NT from an improved OS/2 to something that would ultimately challenge both OS/2 and Unix for the title of the world's most powerful operating system.
From Publishers Weekly
Released in mid-1993, Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT software is arguably the
best attempt yet at a universal operating system for personal computers, allowing
PC users to open a file, move text or graphics, calculate a row of numbers and
run several word processors, spreadsheets and other applications at once. With
Windows NT (which stands for New Technology), Microsoft chief executive Bill
Gates hopes to extend his dominion, with NT serving as the foundation for everything
from desktop systems to corporate information networks. Critics, however, observe
that the hardware required for NT is expensive and note that a forthcoming Microsoft
operating system, Chicago, may eclipse NT. Wall Street Journal reporter Zachary
tells how Microsoft wizard David Cutler and his team of programmers, working
intensely for five years, overcame technical snafus, thousands of bugs, workplace
skirmishes and collapsing personal lives to create Windows NT. This is both
an enlightening primer on the management of complexity and a rare behind-the-scenes
look at the cutthroat software wars.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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