Does anybody know of a goog book explaining the architecture of windows 95 
in easy to undestand terms?

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Request for Question Clarification by nishka-ga on 12 May 2003 06:17 PDT

Hi vaac!

Could you elaborate more as to what you're looking for?

vaac...

There are several good books about Windows 95 architecture on
this page from Richard O. Mann's (the Book Mann) homepage on
Tripod (watch the pop-ups):
http://members.tripod.com/RichMann/bookman4.html

For example:

"Peter Norton’s Complete Guide to Windows 95 by Peter Norton
 and John Mueller (Sams Publishing, $29.99) invokes the famous
 Peter Norton brand name, but appears to be written by John
 Mueller. In any case, this one is for the under-the-hood
 crowd. One of the early chapters, entitled "The Windows 95
 Architecture," moves directly into CONFIG.SYS and WIN.INI,
 for instance, leaving no doubt as to the intended audience.
 Once you’ve moved beyond the how-to-install-and-use-it books,
 get this one to fine tune Win95 for peak performance."

Several other books are listed and reviewed, as well.


I thought you might also be interested in some online
resources, such as this chapter from Windows IT Library,
which describes "Operating System Basics/Architecture"
and has a section on Windows 95 on this page:
http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/175/09/5.html#1

The other pages in this chapter are accessible from the
bottom of that page. This chapter is but one part of
an entire online book titled 'A+ Certification: How to
Pass Your Exams', authored by Kurt Hudson and Andy Ruth,
and available from the online Table of Contents here:
http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Documents/Book.cfm?DocumentID=175

Additionally, there is an excellent online article called
'Windows 95 Blueprint: Internals and Architecture' from a
book which is, sadly, out of print, called 'Sams' Teach 
Yourself MCSE Windows 95 in 14 Days', by Marcus Barton 
and David Schaer. The article is on InformIT here:
http://www.informit.com/isapi/product_id~%7B85374E58-FD69-461C-A11A-A545888BF5B2%7D/content/index.asp


Naturally, when describing something as complex as the 
architecture of an operating system, you will run across
acronyms and specialized vocabulary which may make it 
somewhat less than "easy to understand". With texts that
fail to adequately define such terms as they go along,
you would do well to make use of a good resource for 
computer terminology, such as Webopedia:
http://www.webopedia.com/

That should get you started. There are more useful links
on the search results link at the bottom of this answer.

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sublime1-ga


Searches done, via Google:

"windows 95 architecture" book
://www.google.com/search?q=%22windows+95+architecture%22+book

online computer terminology
://www.google.com/search?q=online+computer+terminology+

comment is for 2-nd (not1st) answer:Have not have a chance to view books,
but it seem to me offhand that these books (if I can get a hold of them)
are good sources.