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• codeslinger · Sep 26, 2009 · Recommends

  For Windows, there definitive source in book form is the Microsoft Windows Internals series. I worked with a guy that used to work at Microsoft and he prefered this book to looking things up in the source code ;-) http://www.amazon.com/Windows®-Internals-Including-Windows-P... If you're…

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• pjmlp · Apr 9, 2014 · Recommends

  The original author was Mark E. Russinovich from "Sysinternals fame", nowadays other developers continue the new editions. http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Internals-Edition-Developer-Re... http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Internals-Edition-Developer-Re... Additionally the books for user mode programming from Jeffrey Richter and Charles Petzold tend to be quite good…

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• EvanAnderson · Dec 3, 2016 · Recommends

  My respect for NT grew tremendously after reading one of the early editions of Mark Russinovich and David Solomon's "Windows Internals". I haven't seen more recent editions but I'd suspect they just as informative. The Wikipedia article on NT architecture is decent enough (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Windows_NT), and…

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• malkia · Feb 29, 2012 · Recommends

  Another good book for Windows is "Windows Internals" from Mark Russinovich and David A Solomon (SysInternals folks). It's not for writing applications, but rather understanding how Windows works (The Cache Manager section for example)

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• presty · Jul 7, 2014 · Recommends

  edit: forget my answer. I didn't read them as ebooks for plain books: Windows Internals by Solomon and Russinovich AI: A modern Approach by Russell and Norvig

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• marcocampos · Dec 21, 2015 · Recommends

  For more about this, have a look at "Windows Internals" (6th edition is the latest, I believe) by Mark Russinovich, David Solomon and Alex Ionescu. It's an awesome book.

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• dr_zoidberg · Dec 21, 2015 · Mentions

  Windows Internals 7th Edition Book 1 is available already[0], and there will be 2 more books[1]. Russinovich and Solomon have stepped down a while ago, according to that forum thread, but the new book lists them as authors…

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