Windows Architecture

• Operating system design

  • Modified microkernel
  • Layered

• Components

  • HAL
    • Interacts with hardware, drives device components on mainboard
    • Abstracts hardware specifics that differ between systems of the same architecture
  • Microkernel
    • Basic system mechanisms
    • Thread scheduling, interrupt dispatching, etc.

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