JEDI Windows API » Recommendation http://blog.delphi-jedi.net Joint Endeavor of Delphi Innovators of Windows Programming Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:52:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Site Recommendation: History of Windows http://blog.delphi-jedi.net/2010/03/13/site-recommondation-history-of-windows/ http://blog.delphi-jedi.net/2010/03/13/site-recommondation-history-of-windows/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:13:27 +0000 Christian Wimmer http://blog.delphi-jedi.net/?p=697 If you are interested in the history of Windows, as I am, you should read the article The Secret Origin of Windows by Tandy Trower the product manager of Windows 1.0. This article gives a deep insight into the journey Tandy and his developers had to endure to bring a product on the market that should change the world (although it took a while).

Tandy also mentions the competitor Borland with its famous Turbo Pascal (that I also used) and how it got Bill Gates to tremble.

At $50 for the Borland product vs. the Microsoft $400 compiler, it was a bit like comparing a VW to a Porsche. But while Turbo Pascal was lighter weight for serious development, it was almost as quick for programming and debugging as Microsoft’s BASIC interpreters

I wonder if the comment about the speed is true?

And did you know that Microsoft had been using the language Pascal for their projects until they developed C ?

Read more about The Secret Origin of Windows


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To understand the concept of Window Sessions, Stations and Desktop it is not necessary to read all articles to the end. I think the beginning is just fine.

  • Pushing the Limits of Windows: USER and GDI Objects
    Mark Russinovich writes about USER and GDI objects but he also gives a basic introduction how sessions, windowstations and desktops are related.

  • Desktop Heap Overview
    The guys from Advanced Windows Debugging and Troubleshooting explain how it is possible that a desktop can run out of heap. It is a quite technical article but it gives a nice insight into some of the Windows internals.

I often prefer such blog articles to MSDN articles because blog articles are much more fun to read.

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