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Case Study: Windows
The same OS goals, reached from a different lineage, and the differences that trip up cross-platform code. Every section is a drawn page beside a clear written explanation, about 16 minutes in all.
- Chapter 35 of 37
- About 16 minutes
- 7 sections
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In this chapter
- Why study Windows, the other dominant OS
- NT architecture, the layered, hybrid kernel
- Processes & threads, and why there is no fork
- Memory management, same ideas, different knobs
- The Object Manager, handles & the registry
- NTFS, the MFT, journaling, ACLs & streams
- Windows for engineers & the big picture
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