Show Stopper is a wonderful book if you're interested in the historical development of large systems. It's second only to The Soul of a New Machine. I highly recommend it.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1497638836

Read Showstopper it is about the making of Windows NT. It talks about the people that moved for Microsoft from DEC.

https://www.amazon.com/Showstopper-Breakneck-Windows-Generat...

Since we're going into the history of Windows NT, VMS and Dave Cutler. I'd like to highlight this classic book on the history of all three of the above[1]

It follows the same line of narrative as The Soul of a New Machine

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Showstopper-Breakneck-Windows-Generat...

> The two really are 1:1. Windows under the hood is VERY UNIX like. More so than most people realise.

I find this really amusing. I've been reading "Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft"[1] and Dave Cutler is described as VERY anti-Unix. He considered it an inelegant system developed by a bunch of PhDs doing their own thing their own way.

He'd probably hate your comparison.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Showstopper-Breakneck-Windows-Generati...