Actually all of the windows platforms are constructed in a similar manner.
It is just that since Windows 4.0 (Windows '95) these particular qualities
have become more and more of a defining quality of the entire Windows API
structure. Windows NT adds another layer of abstraction, but it too is of
the same basic structure. If you really doubt this consider that this is
information that I discussed with the Win2k debug team leader when he made a
visit to our campus last summer. That's all folks.
Drew Northup, N1XIM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Wouter Coene
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 2:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Thoughts. (multi processor)
>
>
> According to Drew Northup ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > I think you forgot something......: MS-Windows isn't an
> Operating System in
> > the purist sense. Command.com will let you block disk access for a time
> > (that is how the old NDD 7.0 and Speedisk (4.0?) used to work under DOS
> > without getting "interrupted" by a disk write), but kernel.exe and thus
> > kernel32.exe are "simulated multiprocessing" handlers, and thus
> you cannot
> > (currently.., the people at MS are working on this) properly "lock out"
> > access to a disk (or anything else for that matter) unless you
> are talking
> > specifically about the "critical time" for each Win32
> executable (which are
> > all modules of kernel(32?).exe)--which is locked out to prevent massive
> > horrid errors in any form of execution that may take place on
> the machine.
>
> You must be talking about '95.
>
> Wouter
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> * "When people run in circles we call them crazy, *
> * when planets do we call it orbiting" *
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