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From: rob@pcad.UUCP (Ralph Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Books on Windows 3.0 Internals
Summary: MS Device Driver Kit
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Date: 25 Apr 91 15:32:33 GMT
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The only book I've seen on Windows internals is in the MS Device Driver Kit.
This is extremely interesting although a pretty heavy slog. In 386
enhanced mode, Windows itself is a single task (in a sense multi treaded)
running under the real operating system, the Vitual Machine Manager. This
does preemptive multitasking between the Windows task and the other tasks
which are all non-windows apps.

From looking at all this, I suspect that there are a bunch of hacks that
could be done, but with the looming advent of Windows NT I suspect that
they would have a very short life.

Ralph