Operating System Projects using Windows NT

An appropriate supplement to any operating systems text, this lab manual applies concepts learned in the introductory operating systems course by showing students how these concepts are designed and implemented on a modern operating system - Windows NT.

Operating System Concepts Using Windows NT provides a series of twelve lab exercises that can be solved on a Windows NT workstation - these exercises ask students to write programs for NT's Win 32 API. This allows students to experiment with Windows NT without having to work in a raw hardware environment that offers little support. Using this manual, students will gain important insight into how Windows NT is designed and implemented and learn how to construct effective software that interacts directly with the OS, rather than with higher-level abstract machines.

Features

• Each exercise contains an introduction to relevant NT concepts needed by students to solve the exercise
  
• All exercises use the character-oriented console cmd.exe. All exercises are based on C programs that are compiled and written in the Microsoft Visual C++ environment (even though none of them are visual, and none are written in C++)
  
• An Instructor's Manual is available to provide helpful hints and common pitfalls for each exercise, as well as the complete code to all exercises
  
• A copy of both Microsoft NT and Visual C++ is provided - when bundled with either Nutt, Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective, or Silberschatz/Galvin, Operating System Concepts, 5/e - at no extra cost.