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Pointless Blathering

Peter Wieland's thoughts on Windows driver development, and occasional rants about computing in general.

October 2006 - Posts

Glossary Definition of "WDM"
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 all Read More...
Does Windows have a "Scheduler"
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 an independent Read More...
Meet my boss
Nar's talk on the NT I/O manager is now up on channel 9. Read More...
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