My favorite part of NT is the Local Procedure Call (now obsoleted by ALPC): https://computernewb.com/~lily/files/Documents/NTDesignWorkb...

Very cool to be able to read the original design instead of just reverse-engineered ones. Thanks for posting!

For those unclear on what the large pile of .doc and .pdf files are, it appears to be some revision of the design documents for "NT OS/2", which then turned into just NT. This appears to be the Smithsonian description of their physical copy: https://www.si.edu/object/microsoft-windows-nt-os2-design-wo...

> The first release of NT is planned as a workstation product that will provide a strong competitor to UN*X based workstations.

UN*X spelling for trademark reasons or a joke that UNIX is verboten at Microsoft?

I think this is the only place that hosts a (hopefully) full electronic copy of the book.

This is giving me flashbacks to the times when I had to implement systems based on big, verbose specification documents like this. Horrible.

If you really want to understand Windows, skip this and check out Windows 2000 Internals by Solomon and Russinovich (Win2k is a good middle-ground where Windows had matured a bit).

So.. you had _all_ this.. and for some reason just didn't want turn it into a useful set of "man" pages in your OS?

If they had their eye on the actual ball they wouldn't need to write Halloween memos and rant about developers on stage.