[Chapter21] Windows 10

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History

• Windows XP, Vista, and 7
• Windows 8
• Windows 10

Design Principle

• Security
• Reliability
• Windows and Application Compatibility
• High Performance
• Extensibility
• Portability
• International Support
• Energy Efficiency
• Dynamic Device Support

System Components

• Hyper-V Hypervisor
• Secure kernel
• Hardware-Abstraction Layer
• Kernel
  • Dispatcher
  • Switching Between Uuser-Mode and Kernel-Mode Threads
  • Threads
  • Thread Scheduling
  • Implementation of Synchronization Primitives
  • Interrupt Request Levels (IRQLs)
  • Software Interrupt : Asyncronous and Deferred Procedure Calls
  • Exceptions and Interrupts
• Executive
  • Object Manager
  • Virtual-Memory Manager
  • Process Manager
  • Facillties for Client-Server Computing
  • I/O Manager
  • Cache Manager
  • Security Reference Monitor
  • Plug -and -Play Managers
  • Power Manager
  • Registry
  • Booting

Terminal Services and Fast User Switching

File System

• NTFS Internal Layout
  • NTFS B+ Tree
  • NTFS Metadata
• Recovery
• Security
• Compression
• Mount Points, Symbolic Links, and Hard Links
• Change Journal
• Volume Shadow Copies

Networking

• Network Interface
• Protocols
  • Server Message Block
  • TCP / IP _Transmission Control Protocal / Internet Protocal
  • Point to Point Tunneling Protocal
  • HTTP Protocals
  • Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning Protocal
  • Named Pipes
  • Remote Procedure Call
  • Common Object model
• Redirectors and Servers
  • Distributed File System
  • Folder Redirection and Client-side Caching
• Domains
• Active Directory

Programmer Interface

• Access to Kernel Objects
• Sharing Objects Between Processes
• Process Management
  • Scheduling Rules
  • Thread Priorities
  • Thread Suspend and Resume
  • Thread Synchronization
  • Thread - Pool
  • Fibers
  • ConcRT - User-Mode Scheduling and ConcRT
  • Winsock
• IPC Using windows Messaging
• Memory Management
  • Virtual Memory
  • Memory -Mapped Files
  • Heaps
  • Thread -Local Storage
  • AWE Memory