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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!nobeltech!dawe
- From: dawe@nobeltech.se (Daniel Wengelin)
- Subject: Features of the Windows NT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.193949.23528@nobeltech.se>
- Organization: NobelTech AB
- Distribution: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:39:49 GMT
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- Hi all you Windows NT experts!
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- Having browsed through some of the articles in this newsgroup, I
- find it quite difficult to figure out what Windows NT actually is.
- A lot of technical experts are discussing details, but it's hard
- for the beginner to catch up with the essense of NT.
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- I would want know what the basic features of the Windows NT are!
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- Is NT an operating system?
- In that case, what's the process model and scheduling like? How
- does NT relate to the Posix standard of OS interfacing? Does it
- distinguish between light-weight and heavy-weight processes? What's
- the priority range? Is dynamic priorities supported? What's the
- performance of a context switch on any specified hw? How's process
- communication performed? Built in rendezvous mechanisms? Mailboxes?
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- Is NT distributed? (Weird question, but stilistically required...)
- In that case, how is the sharing of resources over a network
- supported by NT? How does NT support remote procedure calls? Remote
- rendezvous? Is the problem of hetrogenous enviroments addressed?
- (Maybe a 'Float' on an Intel is interpreted as a ?? on the Alpha)
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- Is NT a GUI/window manager/MMI-sw specification?
- In that case, how does it relate to other window managers? Could
- X11 be run on top of NT? At what level of abstraction is the interface?
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- Is NT now or later?
- If later, when? And on what hw?
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- As you have concluded, I'm into distributed real-time systems and know
- _nothing_ about Windows NT. If you've noticed that Ada is the language
- of my application, you're Eagle-eyed and right.
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- Please help!
-
- Yours truely
- Daniel
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