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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.
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评分译者序里张银奎解释了中文译名的由来，从英文名“Showstopper”这个词，用来形容戏剧或其他演出精彩得被观众的掌声喝彩声打断，不得不停下来等待安静后才能继续，几经头脑风暴没有找到合适的译名，到突然从《古文观止》得到灵感，看到这里，可以休止了，由此定名。 这让我想到...
评分我是断断续续的读完这本书的，所以很多内容感觉上不是很连贯。我不知道是因为我的断断续续，还是因为翻译质量导致的，但为了维护对自己近30年的汉语经验的一点点可怜的自尊，我还是归咎于翻译质量吧。 这位同学举出了一些：http://book.douban.com/review/2308117/，自己在读...
评分 评分在这里要推荐下《观止-微软创建NT和未来的夺命狂奔》，非常精彩，讲述了windows NT开发过程中的人和事。这不仅仅是故事书，也可以看做一本项目管理方面的指南，可以看看这么巨大的项目（几百万行代码）所遭遇到的难题和痛楚。我更愿意将这本书当做《人月神话》的故事版，同...
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大型软件简直是个nightmare 中文翻译得不怎么样
评分书写的不咋样
评分我看的是中文版《观止》，很好，Mark一下英文原版。
评分good book to know how other team or company works on the critical project, how to keep the team morale, and how to handle stress,etc. A lot of findings in this book.
评分大型软件简直是个nightmare 中文翻译得不怎么样
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