As best I can recall the code for the crash dump is setup shortly after the memory management system is initialized (pagefile.sys is accessable at this point). The data structures used to support the dump are all checksumed at this point. As I vaguely recall it uses a private instantion of the driver used to access the boot drive. This was 9 years ago. I NEVER saw in my time with the code any bug reports of disk corruption.
It was not developed for OLE. What was created for Windows *NT* 3.1, was not in any way what was used in Windows 3.1 (Don't blame me, I wasn't responsible for what products were named). What was the global configuration database in Windows 95 was a somewhat watered down re-implementation of what was created for Windows NT 3.1.
I was part of the team. The registry was neither designed nor implemented by a former employee of DEC. He was however an excellent engineer.
It started out with the simple idea to have one place to contain settings that can be adjusted. It started out with a fairly simple structure. However after 12 years things do get a bit crufty.
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As best I can recall the code for the crash dump is setup shortly after the memory management system is initialized (pagefile.sys is accessable at this point). The data structures used to support the dump are all checksumed at this point. As I vaguely recall it uses a private instantion of the driver used to access the boot drive. This was 9 years ago. I NEVER saw in my time with the code any bug reports of disk corruption.
It was not developed for OLE. What was created for Windows *NT* 3.1, was not in any way what was used in Windows 3.1 (Don't blame me, I wasn't responsible for what products were named). What was the global configuration database in Windows 95 was a somewhat watered down re-implementation of what was created for Windows NT 3.1.
I was part of the team. The registry was neither designed nor implemented by a former employee of DEC. He was however an excellent engineer. It started out with the simple idea to have one place to contain settings that can be adjusted. It started out with a fairly simple structure. However after 12 years things do get a bit crufty.