《Show Stopper!》

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(从网上摘录的评论) 不论是Windows XP/2000，还是刚兴起的 Windows Vista，它们都是基于经典的Windows NT内核。 NT内核从1998年开始开发，历时将近5 年与1993年7月26 日发布，即NT 3.1。

在开发NT内核的近 5年中，有很多精彩的故事，和发人深省的东西，这些东西既有软件工程方面的、技术方面的，也有团队协作、和最基本的人性方面的。

幸运的是，有一本书很好的记录了开发NT内核的人和事，这本书的名字叫 《Showstopper》。

https://www.amazon.com/Show-Stopper-Cloth-BREAKNECK-GENERATION/dp/0029356717

Showstopper这个词是一个很有趣的词，在戏剧和表演方面，人们使用这个词来形容令人拍手叫绝的精彩演出，它被观众的掌声和喝彩声所打断，不得不停下来等人们安静下来才能再继续。在日常用语方面，showstopper 也是一个很好的词，人们用它来形容超乎寻常的美丽和迷人……但当这个词被引入到计算机特别是软件领域后，它的含义发生了根本性的变化，它代表的是最严重的问题（ bug）！它如此严重，以至于阻碍了产品核心功能的使用，不解决它产品就不可能发布，其它很多工作也无法进展，整个项目不得不延期 ……

《Showstopper》一书以 NT的开发过程为线索，生动了描述了5年中的很多精彩故事，特别是NT团队如何解决开发中的Showstopper类问题的动人情节。该书活生生的塑造了一系列著名的人物：包括Bill Gates、今天的微软CEO Steve Ballmer 、被称为NT内核之父的David Cutler、和离开微软到Google的Mark Lucovsky、今天创业开发新型操作系统的Lou Perazzoli 等等。

我是两年前买了这本书，读了很多编，每次都都觉得很有趣，很受启发。

前一段我突然想起把这本书翻译成中文。于是我联系书的作者，他非常赞同，愿意为中文版写两章新的内容，一章是介绍，介绍当年采访NT开发过程的背景资料，另一章介绍当年人物的今天情况。

对现在出中文版的一个担心就是距离英文版的时间有些太长了，但是正因为此，这本书的历史价值才更凸现出来了。当年的NT团队成员今天大多已经声名显赫，比如书中多次介绍的Somasegar，当年是NT团队测试工程师，今天已经是微软的VP，负责开发工具Division，领导Visual Studio和.Net系列开发工具的开发。著名的微软印度开发中心也是他主导建立的。

https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/somasegar/default.mspx

另外，像这样介绍Windows开发过程的书，或者介绍如此大型软件详细开发过程的书，Showstopper也是空前绝后的一本。设想今天会有一本书详细的描述Vista的内部开发过程么？

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.
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