Writing OpenVMS Alpha Device Drivers in C


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This book contains two parts--a Developer's Guide on how to write the software for the device driver and AXP (Alpha) processor and how to load the driver into the Open VMS AXP operating system. The Reference Manual section of the book describes the data structures, macros, and routines used in OpenVMS AXP device driver programming.




OpenVMS Alpha Internals and Data Structures


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OpenVMS Alpha Internals and Data Structures: Memory Management is an updateto selected parts of the book OpenVMS AXP Internals and Data Structures Version 1.5 (Digital Press, 1994). This book covers the extensions to the memory management subsystem of OpenVMS Alpha to allow the operating system and applications to access 64 bits of address space. It emphasizes system data structures and their manipulation by paging and swapping routines and related system services.It also describes management of dynamic memory, such as nonpaged pool, and support for nonuniform memory access (NUMA) platforms.This book is intended for systems programmers, technical consultants, application designers, and other computer progressions interested in learning the details of the OpenVMS executive. Teachers and students of graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in operating systems will find this book a valuable study in how theory and practice are resolved in a complex commercialoperating system.THE definitive reference describing how the OpenVMS kernel worksWritten by a top authority on OpenVMS systemsCovers the latest version of OpenVMS







Tru64 UNIX File System Administration Handbook


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System administrators and technical professionals will be able to understand and master the most critical part of Tru64 UNIX by using this easy-to-understand guide written by a file systems expert. This book also explains how to deploy Compaq's TruCluster clustering technology.




OpenVMS System Management Guide


Book Description

OpenVMS System Management Guide, Second Edition, the most complete book on the topic, details for system administrators the tools, technologies, and techniques by which they can configure, maintain, and tune computers running Hewlett-Packard's high-performance OpenVMS operating system. Revised by a topical authority and a principal OpenVMS engineer, the book enables system administrators to perform more efficiently and effectively those everyday tasks critical to an OpenVMS system. Examples have been updated to include OpenVMS/VAX 7.3 and OpenVMS/Alpha 7.3-1. - OpenVMS administration best practices and utilities - System management strategies that support business objectives - Updated references to latest HP documents and other WWW resources - New chapter summarizing software installation - New appendix to help the hobbyist get started







The Cumulative Book Index


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A world list of books in the English language.







Handbook of Information Security, Information Warfare, Social, Legal, and International Issues and Security Foundations


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The Handbook of Information Security is a definitive 3-volume handbook that offers coverage of both established and cutting-edge theories and developments on information and computer security. The text contains 180 articles from over 200 leading experts, providing the benchmark resource for information security, network security, information privacy, and information warfare.




Operating Systems and Middleware


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By using this innovative text, students will obtain an understanding of how contemporary operating systems and middleware work, and why they work that way.




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