An interesting book, because it both supports and contradicts the usual narrative about NT.
The contradictions are more interesting. Networking according to this book was something of a second thought. That was somewhat apparent in NT 3, where TCP/IP sockets were kind of second class. This has since been remedied.
NTFS is a bit more problematic. It's pretty clearly a descendant of DEC's ODS-11 filesystem, but "Showstopper!" doesn't mention that, and hardly anyone else does either.
Early NT (at least) also owed a huge debt to both Unix and Mach, but "Showstopper!" doesn't mention this either, in favor of an immaculate conception.
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[ 5.4 ms ] story [ 9.9 ms ] threadAn interesting book, because it both supports and contradicts the usual narrative about NT.
The contradictions are more interesting. Networking according to this book was something of a second thought. That was somewhat apparent in NT 3, where TCP/IP sockets were kind of second class. This has since been remedied.
NTFS is a bit more problematic. It's pretty clearly a descendant of DEC's ODS-11 filesystem, but "Showstopper!" doesn't mention that, and hardly anyone else does either.
Early NT (at least) also owed a huge debt to both Unix and Mach, but "Showstopper!" doesn't mention this either, in favor of an immaculate conception.