Great snapshot for the turn of millenium. Thanks for posting and triggering the trip down memory lane. Especially nostalgic for me personally as I was in the midst of coding early Windows and OS/2 kernel mode device drivers for scientific instruments, not to mention having written my own multi-tasking RTOS for the 186, at the peak of my career at that time. I remember most of these books, and had dog-eared copies of a few of them (particularly Baker's Device Driver book.) The only other book on Operating Systems that I see missing from this list, and probably would have included at the time, would be Donovan's.

Dekker's and Newcomer's book was missing. I've just added it. I used it regularly.

Downloading from the link https://www.bourns.com/pdfs/OnlinePotentiometerHandbook.pdf produces a corrupted copy (many pages missing or out of order.) This is a better link: https://www.bourns.com/docs/technical-documents/technical-li...

The pages seem to be sorted in alphabetical order. I saw 198, 199, 20, 200, 201 in there. I wonder how that happened...

Probably the pages were scanned one by one as individual files and then finally all files were combined.

Thanks! Updated.

Perhaps you could include a comparison with BSTR implementation used extensively in Windows COM interfaces?

HSTRING (from WinRT) is probably more interesting at this point.

especially paywalled links to sources such as WSJ

I wish there was a small logo beside a link indicating the presence of a paywall.

Actual work location, if not 100% remote.

Yes, the ??? on line 2 is KWH. You can see this clearly at: https://historical.ha.com/itm/explorers/space-exploration/ap...

hate these paywall posts

Turn off js

Fyi, the topic was discussed a few months back in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15163528 after the _Quantamagazine_ article was reprinted in _Wired_.

Been using this for decades; my first boss, a PhD physicist, out of college got me started on using this. It's still being sold today: https://www.amazon.com/National-Computation-Notebook-Inches-...