Multithreaded Programming with Windows NT | 
 enlarge | Authors: Thuan Q. Pham, Pankaj K. Garg
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1048436
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Dsk
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Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0131206435
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2
EAN: 9780131206434
ASIN: 0131206435
Publication Date: December 1995
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Product Description
Windows NT is coming back as a subject. This book brings multithreading to the Windows NT operating system. It covers a specialized area of interest to programmers--multitasking computer operations. One current application that the authors cover is video on demand, bringing together the cable and movie industries.
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 Great book for both beginners and software professionals October 27, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book took me from knowing nothing about thread programming to writing professional mulithreaded programs very quickly. If you are tasked to write multithreaded programs under Windows NT (like I was) this book will give you a flying start.
You can hit the ground with your feet running... June 18, 1998
I found this book to be the best primer for someone who has not done any multithreaded programming. The examples are concise and straight to the point. I read this book in two days . This book was very similar to an Operating Systems course that I had taken where I learned about concurrent programming; e.g., the "Reader-writers" and the "Dinning Philosphers" problems, deadlocks/starvation, race conditions, and how to synchronize events, etc.. In a world where getting information/samples to show "how to" do multithreaded programming, this book will give you a starting point to build on. "Highly recommended".
 Fundamentally Flawed Examples October 24, 1997
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book offers good solutions, overall. But it's advice is ocasionally flawed fatally. Within the first couple chapters, for example, the authors write all of their examples to call TerminateThread(), which is a fatal and unforgivable mistake that results in nothing more than unstability. Worse, throught the book, they code threads that use the C runtime libraries but start the threads with the CreateThread() API--that causes the runtime libraries to not correctly initialize or shutdown in all cases, and that results in memory leaks and unstability. While the authors clearly treat deadlocks and thread programming models, their implementations are still mortally flawed. A score of 10 for great abstract descriptions plus a score of 1 for terribly poor implementations and samples results in a score of five.
Excellent book on multithreading August 11, 1997
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A very well written book on multithreading. Though this book focuses on NT multthreading model, it will serve as a good reference for people working on UNIX as well.It is written in a very simple language which makes the reading very easy and interesting. Coming from UNIX background, I would have liked to have a more elaborate comparision of NT thread interface with UNIX (such as Solaris) one. But in no way this missing feature diminishes the value of this book. A must have!!
Great reference manual if you are still programming NT 3.5 July 25, 1997
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Beware of this text, despite it's recent publication date of 1996 it only covers Windows NT 3.5 multithread API.If this is what you are looking for then purchase this book!
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