What's in a Thread?
Further Reading
Continued from Hands On: Single vs. Multiple Threads
If you'd like to learn more about threads and explore some of the technical issues in more detail, let me recommend two books. The first is Advanced Windows, by Jeffrey Richter (1995, Microsoft Press). In addition to providing all the information a programmer needs to write multithreaded applications, this book includes riches of information regarding the Windows NT and Windows 95 schedulers and the nature of threads themselves. A second source of information is Adrian King's Inside Windows 95, also from Microsoft Press. In this book, King overviews the system architecture as it relates to processes and threads and briefly describes some aspects of scheduling and the operating system's internal use of threads.
Jeff Prosise is a contributing editor of PC Magazine.
Published as Tutor in the 12/05/95 issue of PC Magazine.
