A Missive From The RISC/CISC War

From A Windows NT Perspective

Ed. Note: This account of the author’s tech career is excerpted from the chapter on his early Microsoft career, in the Advanced Consumer Technology (ACT) division. Under Craig Mundie’s leadership, ACT had purchased Softimage, the company whose software for Silicon Graphics workstations had been used to animate the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. When Softimage balked at porting their application to Windows NT, Microsoft funded a Redmond-based team to do the port for them.