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Summary: The best NT driver book I have got
Review: Before this book, I have written several NT drivers based on DDK samples and another book from Art Baker. Although I could make my drivers work, there are many mysteries to me. It is a little frustrating experience, coz NT driver is much different from those old VxDs in Win95. This book is surprisingly clear. Chapter after Chapter, It is such a joy for me to get answers to some questions which perplexted me for a long time. :) Strongly recommended! David
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Summary: plotter driver for hp7550a under nt or for wp 5.1
Review: Dear all, We have an plotter printer HP 7550a and we run NT as operating system. There are no drivers for nt for this printer. We now are trying to get this printer working under wp 5.1 because there are no printer drivers for NT. Who can help me get the driver I am looking for. It does not matter if it is an NT driver or an corel wp5.1 driver. Please help me we would realy appriciate this efford ! with kind regards, Jeropen van Mourik ING BANK Netherlands
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Summary: A must have on any NT kernel developer's bookshelf
Review: I began developing NT drivers during the NT 3.1 beta days and saw an immediate need for a book like this. I have been begging people to write this book for over 3 years. In those days the only place to get help was on Compuserve and guess who always responded to questions and provided valuable information for people delving into this new operating system. (The two authors) I am thrilled that the two best NT kernel developers I know found time and dedicated themselves to the task of writing this great book. This book is probably more important than any other technical programming book written to date. The reason is drivers can crash the computer and poorly written drivers do it on a regular basis. With Windows NT becoming the worldwide server operating system of choice it is very important that drivers work and work well. This book not only discusses all phases of driver development, but teaches the audience correct methods of developing robust drivers. In a matter of weeks you will learn techniques and kernel programming practices that normally take years to develop. The granularity of the book is well thought out and will serve the kernel programmer well. If you have been given the task of developing a bus master DMA driver simply turn to chapter 17 and you will learn more than you ever wanted to know about DMA with examples! If you just want to learn about how NT manages memory turn to Chapter 3. This book will become the de-facto standard for NT device driver development and must have on any serious developer's bookshelf. Technical Reviewer
Mike Barry
Sr. Vice President-Development/Engineering
T/R Systems<br
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Summary: A must have on any NT kernel developer's bookshelf
Review: I began developing NT drivers during the NT 3.1 beta days and saw an immediate need for a book like this. I have been begging people to write this book for over 3 years. In those days the only place to get help was on Compuserve and guess who always responded to questions and provided valuable information for people delving into this new operating system. (The two authors) I am thrilled that the two best NT kernel developers I know found time and dedicated themselves to the task of writing this great book. This book is probably more important than any other technical programming book written to date. The reason is drivers can crash the computer and poorly written drivers do it on a regular basis. With Windows NT becoming the worldwide server operating system of choice it is very important that drivers work and work well. This book not only discusses all phases of driver development, but teaches the audience correct methods of developing robust drivers. In a matter of weeks you will learn techniques and kernel programming practices that normally take years to develop. The granularity of the book is well thought out and will serve the kernel programmer well. If you have been given the task of developing a bus master DMA driver simply turn to chapter 17 and you will learn more than you ever wanted to know about DMA with examples! If you just want to learn about how NT manages memory turn to Chapter 3. This book will become the de-facto standard for NT device driver development and must have on any serious developer's bookshelf. Technical Reviewer
Mike Barry
Sr. Vice President-Development/Engineering
T/R Systems
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Summary: Cool book, I found it very useful
Review: I think its a good book and well organized, my only black poing is that I missed a toolkit section like WinDriver-www.jungo.com- or numega that enable easy and quick development.
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Summary: The ultimate guide to NT device driver architechture.
Review: I'm a Windows 95 device driver engineer making my way into the NT world. After much frustration trying to learn the NT device driver architecture in any quick manner on my own, I decided it was time to buy a book. The authors' explanations of the NT architecture are amazingly clear. Gradually each chapter builds on the previous unfolding the mysteries of NT. After each portion of information is presented to you, a real world example is shown, making confusion virtually impossible for the reader. I literally found myself asking a question then turning the page to see the answer presented to me as if on a platter. With precious time saving tips sprinkled throughout the book and a very clear layout, I highly recommend this to any beginner NT device driver author. I believe experts will find optimizations and tips very helpful as well as a great reference guide to keep by their side.
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Summary: Must have
Review: If you are writing Windows Device Drivers, this is one of 3 books you absolutely must have. Buy it.
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Summary: Cool book, I found it very useful
Review: This book is VERY well written and VERY readable. I needed other sources to get an actual driver written (see Chris Cant's book) but only because this book gives a much more complete picture and I needed something more specific. That's my point...if you want a good, solid understanding of the system and an excellent reference, get this book. It's not often one finds technical-minded people with such writing skill.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This book is VERY well written and VERY readable. I needed other sources to get an actual driver written (see Chris Cant's book) but only because this book gives a much more complete picture and I needed something more specific. That's my point...if you want a good, solid understanding of the system and an excellent reference, get this book. It's not often one finds technical-minded people with such writing skill.
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