<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div>> From: Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE><br><div> <br clear="none">> what is the "Showstopper"?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">A belletristic account of Windows NT development history.<br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">"Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the <span style="font-weight: bold;">legendary Bruce [sic!] Cutler</span>, a picked band of software engineers sacrifices almost everything in their lives to build a new, stable, operating system aimed at giving Microsoft a platform for growth through the next decade of development in the computing business. Comparable in many ways to the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, Showstopper gets deep inside the process
of software development, the lives and motivations of coders and the pressure to succeed coupled with the drive for originality and perfection that can pull a diverse team together to create a program consisting of many hundreds of thousands of lines of code."</span><br><br>http://www.amazon.com/Showstopper-Breakneck-Windows-Generation-Microsoft/dp/1497638836<br><br>In all fairness, in the text of the book they actually got Cutler's name right.<br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">"G. Pascal Zachary is a journalist, author, and teacher. He spent thirteen years as a senior writer for the Wall Street Journal (1989 to 2001) [...] Zachary concentrates on African affairs. He also writes on globalization, America's role in world affairs, immigration, race and identity, and the dysfunctionalities and divisions in US society."<br></span><br>Some undoubtedly would argue that Windows must be falling into "dysfunctionalities and divisions in US
society".<br></div> </div> </div></body></html>