Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer talks about the history of task manager

Dave Plummer is the original author of the Windows Task Manager, a tool known to many around the world. In a series on YouTube he talks about it’s history and how he wrote it. Another credit to Dave Plummers name is that he also wrote Space Cadet Pinball for Windows.

It gives a unique insight into Task Manager and how it came to be:

Part 1

Part 2

Source code review of Windows Taskmanager