Microsoft Windows NT and Sun Microsystems Solaris

A Comparison of Commercial Operating Systems

November 13th, 2000

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Table of Contents

Microsoft Windows NT and Sun Microsystems Solaris
Presentation Outline
Microsoft Windows NT Primary Design Goals
Windows NT OS Characteristics
System Architecture Overview
Architecture - User Mode
Architecture - Kernel Mode
Processes, Threads, and Scheduling
Solaris
proc_t Data Structure
proc_t Interesting Bits
Threads
Threads and LWP
kthread_t Data Structure
kthread_t Interesting Bits
Scheduling
Windows NT
EPROCESS Block
EPROCESS Interesting Bits
ETHREAD Block
ETHREAD Interesting Bits
Scheduling
Good… So Now What...
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Author: Stephen Kazmierczak

Email: zik@planetspaceball.com

Home Page: http://www.planetspaceball.com/~zik/

Course information:
WPI CS 535: Advanced Topics in Operating Systems
Professor Craig Wills, Fall 2000



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