March 01, 1998 10:01 PM

Windows NT Architecture, Part 1

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Mark Russinovich
Windows IT Pro
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The design and construction of an innovative operating system
Windows NT's architecture influences everything from its API to its performance. In the late 1980s, Microsoft charged NT's developers with creating a new operating system, and the company mandated a hefty list of requirements to make NT the world's dominant desktop and enterprise-level operating system. NT's developers faced the constraints of supporting backward compatibility with DOS and Windows 3.x, as ...

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Useful for the OS programmers, OS testers and students as well.

Good Article Mark. Keep it up,
~Satish Agrawal, Pune, India

Anonymous User 7/11/2005 3:13:49 AM

Simply great article...

Anonymous User 7/11/2005 3:00:56 AM

amazing article, useful even for the people who does not have any software exposure.

Anirudh


Anonymous User 1/17/2005 11:07:52 AM

Nice. Defenitely useful for programmers.

saravanan4/27/2004 6:33:33 AM

Dear Sir
Would you please send me what you have on windows 2000/nt architecture.

yours faithfully

yousef3/16/2004 8:37:23 AM

Mark Russinovich is amazing. NT Internals buffs should take time out and check www.sysinternals.com
Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell are authoritative sources when it comes to NT Internals.

Iyer 8/31/2000 11:13:34 AM

Wow ! This is absolutely great ! The notes are excellent for a quick study of the NT architecture .

Koshy Panicker 8/16/2000 6:55:59 AM

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