First, special thanks to the following people: Dave Cutler, Senior Distinguished Engineer and the original architect of Microsoft Windows NT. Dave originally approved David Solomon's source code access and has been supportive of his work to explain the internals of Windows NT through his training business as well as during the writing of Inside Windows NT, Second Edition, and Inside Microsoft Windows 2000, Third Edition. Besides reviewing the chapter on processes and threads, Dave answered many questions on the kernel architecture of the system and wrote a historical perspective for this edition. Jim Allchin, our executive sponsor, for writing the Foreword to this book and championing our cause within Microsoft. Rob Short, vice president, who made sure we had the resources we needed, as well as access to the relevant people.
We also thank two developers in the Windows division for writing new content that was incorporated into this edition: Adrian Marinescu, who wrote the greatly expanded heap manager section in the memory management chapter. Samer Arafeh, who wrote the description of Wow64.
Thanks to our friend Jeffrey Richter, for writing the "What about .NET and WinFX" sidebar in Chapter 1 and for continuing to remind us over many dinners together of his view on how few people should care about what we talk about in this book. This book wouldn't contain the depth of technical detail or the level of accuracy it has without the review, input, and support of key members of the Microsoft Windows development team. Therefore, we want to thank the following people, who provided technical review and input to the book: Murali Brahmadesam | Pat Hoffer | Daniel Pravat | Molly Brown | Anthony Jones | Dragos Sambotin | Duncan Bryce | Tom Jones | Jon Schwartz | Daniel Bucherer | Joseph Joy | Rob Short | Neal Christian | Shreeniwas Kelkar | Paul Sliwowicz | Neill Clift | Connie La Chasse | Chittur Subbaraman | Mike Danseglio | Mike Lai | Cristian Teodorescu | Joseph Davies | Paul Leach | Andre Vachon | Cenk Ergan | Gerald Maffeo | Landy Wang | Tom Fout | Aaron Margosis | Richard Ward | Nar Ganapathy | Iain McDonald | Brad Waters | David Golds | Kamen Moutafov | Bruce Worthington | Robert Gu | Adi Oltean | Mark Zbikowsk | Jeff Hamblin | Vince Orgovan | Khawar Zuberi |
Others might have contributed by answering questions in the hallway or cafeteria and providing technical material if we missed you, please forgive us! Thanks also to Jamie Hanrahan of Azius Developer Training (http://www.azius.com), who coauthored with David the original Windows Internal Architecture class on which the second edition was based. Jamie, who has a real knack for explaining complicated concepts in a simple and practical fashion, developed several of the explanations, diagrams, and figures. Thanks to Dave Probert for hosting the share where review drafts were distributed to internal Microsoft reviewers. And thanks to Jonathan Sloves of AMD for arranging AMD64 test systems to be sent to us to help us develop the 64-bit content and port some of the Sysinternals tools to x64. Finally, we want to thank the following people from Microsoft Press for their contribution to this book: Robin van Steenburgh, acquisitions editor, for patiently working with us to complete this project. Sally Stickney, who, for a time, continued as our project editor, but later got drawn into the management vortex. We missed working with you this time! Valerie Woolley, who took over as project editor from Sally. You were great (and not as rough on us as Sally was for the last two editions)! Roger LeBlanc, who laboriously went through all our chapters to tighten up text, find inconsistencies, and in general bring the manuscript up to the high standards of Microsoft Press.
David Solomon and Mark Russinovich September, 2004 |
