Unauthorized Windows 95: A Developer's Guide to Exploring the Foundations of Windows "Chicago"

by Andrew Schulman

Provides a critical and realistic look at what Chicago means for Windows programming. The book includes protected mode, V-86 mode and VMM.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568841698
• ISBN13: 9781568841694
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Programmers Press
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Written as a technical book, functions as a history book

Windows 95 was released on August 24, 1995 by Microsoft, and was a significant progression from the company's previous versions of Windows. During development it was referred to by the internal codename "Chicago". It was intended to combine the functions of Microsoft's formerly separate MS-DOS and Windows products and featured significant improvements over the popular Windows 3.1, most visibly the graphical user interface whose basic format and structure was still used in later versions such as Windows XP. There were also large changes made to the underlying workings, including support for 255-character mixed-case long filenames and preemptively multitasked protected-mode 32-bit applications. This book was written prior to the release of Windows 95 and talks about the design decisions that were made and why they were made. The author goes into great detail, so if anyone out there needs a good history book on this first-of-a-kind OS, this would be the one to get, especially since you can get copies for under a dollar each.