Richter Jeffrey. Advanced Windows NT: The Developer's Guide to the Win32 Application Programming Interface

Microsoft Press, 1994. — 455 p. — ISBN: 1-55615-567-0.Assuming a knowledge of 16-bit Windows programming, this book explains what is new and different about Windows NT and details what programmers need to know to exploit the feature or mechanism in their programs. The book contains chapters on NT's powerful memory-management system, issues relating to multitasking, and a section explaining NT's otherwise opaque message-passing system with a powerful piece of code called "message crackers".Contents Summary.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Processes and threads.
Memory management with heaps.
Virtual memory management.
Memory-mapped files.
Thread synchronization of the Win32 Subsystem environment.
Dynamic-link libraries.
Thread-local storage.
File systems and file I/O.
Structured exception handling chapter eleven.
Unicode.
Appendix.
Message crackers.
Index.