The Windows Operating System.pptVIP

The Windows Operating System Goals Hardware-portable Used to support MIPS, PowerPC and Alpha Currently supports x86, ia64, and amd64 Multiple vendors build hardware Software-portable POSIX, OS2, and Win32 subsystems OS2 is dead POSIX is still supported—separate product Lots of Win32 software out there in the world Goals High performance Anticipated PC speeds approaching minicomputers and mainframes Async IO model is standard Support for large physical memories SMP was an early design goal Designed to support multi-threaded processes Kernel has to be reentrant Process Model Threads and processe