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Inside Windows NT
by Helen Custer
$24.95 pb / 385 pages / ISBN 1-55615-481-X / Microsoft Press
 
From the back cover:
 
.. provides an accessible, inside look at the design of this revolutionary 
operating system.  Written by a member of the Windows NT team during 
the system's development, Inside Windows NT reads like a wide-ranging, 
in-depth discussion with the Windows NT developers.  The author begins 
with a description of the Windows NT operating system and a discussion 
of the design goals, providing an overview of Windows NT and the 
architectural model on which it is based.  The author then covers, in 
technical detail, such topics as:
 
Client-Server Protected Subsystems
--the source of Windows NT's ability to simultaneously run MS-DOS, 16-
bit Windows, POSIX, and OS/2 programs.
 
The NT Kernel
--its kernel objects, interrupt and exception handling, thread scheduling 
and dispatch, and multiprocessor synchronization.
 
Virtual Memory Manager
--the implementation of its 32-bit linear addressing scheme, versatile 
paging software, and memory-mapped files, as well as its interface to the 
kernel, the cache manager, and the process structure.
 
Object Management--the naming and sharing of system resources.
 
Processes and Threads, I/O and File Systems.
 

Chapter Headings:
 
1.	The Mission
2.	System Overview
3.	The Object Manager and Object Security
4.	Processes and Threads
5.	Windows and Protected Subsystems
6.	The Virtual Memory Manager
7.	The Kernel
8.	The I/O System
9.	Networking
 


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