I got looped into a discussion about the WDK glossary entry for "Windows Driver Model". It got me thinking about how difficult it is to explain things in the driver space to non-driver folks. When I was working in storage I used to have this problem...

The question came up on the NTDEV mailing list a while back about how the "Scheduler" works in Windows … specifically about what thread it ran on and how it got control. The answer is that you should ignore this idea that there's a "scheduler" as...

Nar's talk on the NT I/O manager is now up on channel 9.