Chunchmode – The NT Story

Cover's the book "Showstopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary.

"Showstopper!" is a weird book, but it should be read more, especially by Windows people. There's some problems with the accepted history of Windows NT vs what' in that book, for example. The book shows that TCP/IP networking was an afterthought at best. For an OS introduced in the early 90s, that one's hard to believe, but NT didn't have a network-transparent windowing system either. Also, the NT filesystem. NTFS is clearly a minor re-write of DEC's ODS-11 filesystem, that VMS used. Why does the book say NTFS was such hot stuff, and why was it so hard to get it coded? Zachary also seems to have missed out on the Mica/NT code copying thing (http://windowsitpro.com/windows-client/death-alpha-nt), too, so maybe the book is near rubbish.