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Windows2000AdvancedServer

Windows 2000 Advanced Server

A brief introduction to Windows2000AdvancedServer, describing its suitability for desktop, file serving and Web-Site hosting and any specific hardware requirements. Include in your introduction a brief outline of application support.

A more powerful mid-range server that includes the full features set of Windows 2000 Server and adds the advanced high-availability and improved scalability required for enterprise and larger implementation solutions in education "[#1]":#ref1.

Windows 2000 Advanced Server is the server operating system for line-of business applications and e-commerce. Windows 2000 Advanced Server includes all the features and application availability of Windows 2000 Server, with additional scalability and reliability features, such as clustering, designed to keep your business-critical applications up and running in the most demanding scenarios "[#2]":#ref2.

The Windows 2000 Server is "The mainstream server includes the multipurpose capabilities required for workgroups and school site deployments of file and print servers, application servers, web servers, and communication servers" "[#1]":#ref1.

This looks to me as though this server is not designed to be used as a desktop system, but has been designed for handling files and printers and applications etc.

Experience in the past has shown there to be little to no application support with this company, although there are a large number of applications available through Microsoft or 3rd parties.

Suitability for file serving: Is apparently at least as good as windows 2000. It does have SMP, expandable to 8gb of memory, It has network load balancing (NLB)

Ease of use and availability of device support.

Microsoft is known for it's ease of use and availability of hardware device drivers.

- For each operating system, describe the technical characteristics of process and memory management. For example, if each operating system uses virtual memory management, indicate how prioritization of threads is achieved, whether applications can access higher priority threads and, if so, how.

Demand paging is handled by Clustering. That is not only the faulting page, but also the pages around it are loaded into memory.

Thread syncronization is handled by using spinlocks for kernel threads, and dispatcher objects for applicatoin space threads. The dispatcher objects can use mutexes, semaphores and events to help with the sycronization.

Thread schedulization is handled by a priority and preemptive scheduling algorithm. This system is not a "hard real-time" system, but is fine for most server needs "[#3]":#ref3.

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