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Too bad Dave Cutler didn’t write a memoir.


The book 'Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft' is a really great read on Dave Cutler.

I would love more 'tech origin stories'. Next I am planning to read 'Soul of a new machine'. Another one I enjoyed was 'Open: How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing'


judging from how i've read other people describe him, Dave Cutler's personality seems antithecal to memoirs or biographies, from what I've read he seems to be very much like John Carmack in his total lack of sentimentality. Thankfully some enterprising people have managed to get him to sit infront of a camera, but its pretty light on the nitty gritty technical aspects:

- Computer history museum interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29RkHH-psrY - David Plummer's interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi1Lq79mLeE


I'm sure the NT kernel is a marvel but I'm afraid it's too late for me now :-)




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