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Just the other day I ended up on this: https://speakerdeck.com/trent/pyparallel-how-we-removed-the-...

There is also that whole thing about kqueue/epoll vs Overlapped I/O which I think is pretty cool.

The more I read about Windows, the more I find the cool stuff is underneath, buried under a mountain of developer-hostile commercial choices, a philosophical rejection of the command-line that dates to the '90s, bad tacked-on security, sprawling and messy APIs, and a forever-incomplete UI wavering between garish and spartan. Once you get past all that (and all the terrible software built on top of it), NT is actually a very interesting system to play with.