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It seems a lot of influential software projects were death marches. I just finished a book about Windows NT which almost drove its developers to the breaking point. Mac development was the same.

However, I believe most death march projects don't end as something influential.

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What's the book?

Probably "Showstopper!" by G. Zachary. I remember really liking it.

Showstopper is indeed a really fun read. IIRC the reason it was a death march project was because microsoft needed a unix competitor yesterday because everyone knew unix was going to take over the desktop and DOS/Windows was doomed.

Yup. Great read. Just right for a weekend

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