Inside Windows NT

This is the authoritative guide to the architecture and design philosophy of Microsoft's powerful 32-bit operating system, written by a member of the Windows NT development team. Microsoft Windows NT is the foundation of the new 32-bit operating system designed to support the most powerful workstation and server systems. The initial developer support for Windows NT has been phenomenal--developers have demonstrated more than 50 Windows NT applications only months after receiving the pre-release version of the software. This authoritative text--by a member of the Windows NT development group--is a a richly detailed technical overview of the design goals and architecture of Windows NT. (Operating Systems) The mission; an operating system for the 1990s; design goals; the team; the rest of the book; system overvies; windows NT models; windows NTstructure; additional windows NT architectures; the object manager an object security; NT executive objects; managing objects; protecting objects; processes and threads; what is a process?; what are threads?; process structure; windows and the protected subsystems; protected subsystems overview; interacting with windows NT subsystems; win32 subsystem; MS-DOS and the 16-bit windows API; message passing with the local procedure call(LPC) facility; the virtual memory manager; virtual memory; user-mode features; virtual memory implementation; the kernel; overview; thread scheduling and dispatching; interrupt and exception handing; multiprocessor synchronization; power failure recovery; chapter eight; the I/O system; an overview of NT I/O; I/O processing; layered driver model; networking; background; built-in networking; open architecture; distributed application environment; corporation-wide networking and distributed security; epilogue; glossary of terms and acronyms; bibliography; index Microsoft Windows NT is the foundation of the new 32-bit operating system designed to support the most powerful workstation and server systems. The initial developer support for Windows NT has been phenomenal--developers have demonstrated more than 50 Windows NT applications only months after receiving the pre-release version of the software. This authoritative text--by a member of the Windows NT development group--is a a richly detailed technical overview of the design goals and architecture of Windows NT. (Operating Systems) Design: David N. Cutler A detailed technical overview of the design goals and architecture of Windows NT (New Technology). Helen Custer highlights key topics: system object management, process and threads, protected subsystems, virtual memory, the kernel, the I/O system and networking. Foreward Preface The Mission System Overview The Object Manager and Object Security Processes and Threads Windows and the Protected Subsystems The Virtual Memory Manager The Kernel The I/O System Networking Epilogue Glossary Bibliography Index