Who should attend: This tutorial is aimed at operating system developers, applications programmers, and system administrators who need to understand the internal behavior and architecture of Windows NT.

Note: the information presented is valid for both NT Version 4 and 5.

Windows NT is built on a new operating system code base, similar in many ways to well-established OS's such as Unix and VMS, and very different from Microsoft's DOS/Win16/Windows 9x platforms. This tutorial will describe the behavior of Windows NT from "system architecture" point of view. Using a variety of tools, we will explore internal interfaces and the behavior of the system, show how NT implements fundamental operating system functions such as scheduling and memory management, and show how NT's architecture affects some of its functionality.

Topics covered include:

	General System Architecture
	Providing operating system functions in user mode
	Thread Scheduling
	Memory Management Internals
	Using and interpreting performance measurement tools