This chapter explains the basics of process management and also introduces basic synchronization operations. If you’re at all interested in Windows system programming, this is the place to start.
Windows Processes and Threads: Weaving It All Together
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“The n Habits of Highly Defective Windows Applications”: http://www.flounder.com/badprogram.htm
IBM has a related article at
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-rt7/
that discusses processes and threads on both Linux and Windows.
Windows NT has ALWAYS supported SMP since NT 3.1.