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During my sophomore year at Cal Poly, I decided that I wanted to learn about threads, synchronization techniques and other topics associated modern operating systems. Windows 95 had made its debut (yes, it is not a modern OS, but I didn't know that at the time!) and I had heard about Windows NT, but had never seen or used it. Since I had Win95 on my machine at home, I decided that I would go to the bookstore and buy a book on threading.
Well, needless to say there was not a book that was dedicated to threading, but I found a couple of books on Windows programming that included threading as topics. It came down to 2 books, Jeffrey Richter's "Advanced Windows for Win95 and NT" (with Napoleon on the cover) and some other book. I obviously picked Richter's book ;), although now it is called "Windows via C/C++."
This book was, and still is, awesome. I have both the original and new editions. Great detail, very easy to read and met it my needs perfectly (unlike "Inside OLE" by Kraig Brockschmidt which was full of information, I just could not stay awake reading it :) ). IMHO, it successfully started me down the road to becoming a well rounded developer and I think it helped in getting my foot in the door at Microsoft. I have even had the pleasure of letting Jeff know personally what a great book it is and how it shaped me for years to com.
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