[lazyant]

I remember just three things about the book "Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft" (1994): the death march, that they tested the OS by writing a file over and over (!) and that they thought the graphic part written in the new object-oriented C++ would save them a lot of time (it didn't)

[mark_h]

Yeah, fascinating book; weren't the graphics issues due in part to the lack of maturity of C++ tools at the time though? (I don't remember exactly because it has been a while since I read it)