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It's not a technical book, but Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft[0] compares favorably to The Soul of a New Machine in my opinion. It was originally published in 1994 and reissued in 2008. I haven't see reissue but I know it has an added "Afterward" section that would probably be interesting to read.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1416925.Show_Stopper_




Soul of a New Machine and Showstopper are very much cut from the same cloth.

For anyone interested, we did a Command Line Heroes podcast episode on Soul of a New Machine a few years back. https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-4/minic...

I was actually interviewed for the episode but I got left on the cutting room floor because we were able to arrange more interviews with people directly involved whereas I was just second-hand.


Thanks! I'm going to buy this book too as I'm more of a software guy~~(hw is more fascinating though)




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