VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures


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The most authoritative and complete description of the VAX/VMS operating system. Comprehensive and convenient, this book focuses on the kernel of the VAX/VMS Version 5.2 operating system: process management; memory management; the I/O subsystem; the mechanisms that transfer control to, from, and among these; and the system services that support and complement them.







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







OpenVMS Alpha Internals: Scheduling and Process Control


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OpenVMS Alpha Internals: Scheduling and Process Control provides an update to selected parts of the book OpenVMS AXP Internals and Data Structures Version 1.5. (Digital Press 1994. This book covers the new scheduling model in OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.0, which include executive support for multithreading. It also discusses the life of a process, from creation to deletion. This book is intended for systems programmers, technical consultants, application designers, and other computer professionals 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 commercial operating system.










VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures


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OpenVMS Operating System Concepts


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OpenVMS Operating System Concepts, Second Edition uses a new approach to explain the OpenVMS operating system. Combining discussions of operating system theory with examples of its applications in key OpenVMS operating system facilities, the book provides a thoughtful introduction for application programmers, systems managers, and students. The books shows how OpenVMS system services can tap the power of operating system facilities to perform critical tasks on behalf of applications. It has been updated for OpenVMS and gives program examples in C. · Updated for OpenVMS · Shows program examples in C