OpenVMS AXP Internals and Data Structures, Version 1.5
Published on 10. August 1994
Book
Hardback
1672 pages
978-1-55558-120-6 (ISBN)
Description
This outstanding new book describes the internals and data structures of the OpenVMS AXP operating system 1.5 in vivid detail. Perhaps the most up-to-date description available for a commercial operating system, OpenVMS AXP Internals and Data Stuctures is an irreplaceable reference for operating system development engineers, operating system troubleshooting experts, systems programmers, consultants and customer support specialists. This books is essential for those interested in learning how OpenVMS AXP runs on the Alpha AXP family of processors. This information is equally applicable to the internals of any modern-day symmetric multi-processing operating system running on a RISC computer.
This outstanding new book describes the internals and data structures of the OpenVMS AXP operating system 1.5 in vivid detail. Perhaps the most up-to-date description available for a commercial operating system, OpenVMS AXP Internals and Data Stuctures is an irreplaceable reference for operating system development engineers, operating system troubleshooting experts, systems programmers, consultants and customer support specialists. This books is essential for those interested in learning how OpenVMS AXP runs on the Alpha AXP family of processors. This information is equally applicable to the internals of any modern-day symmetric multi-processing operating system running on a RISC computer.
This outstanding new book describes the internals and data structures of the OpenVMS AXP operating system 1.5 in vivid detail. Perhaps the most up-to-date description available for a commercial operating system, OpenVMS AXP Internals and Data Stuctures is an irreplaceable reference for operating system development engineers, operating system troubleshooting experts, systems programmers, consultants and customer support specialists. This books is essential for those interested in learning how OpenVMS AXP runs on the Alpha AXP family of processors. This information is equally applicable to the internals of any modern-day symmetric multi-processing operating system running on a RISC computer.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-55558-120-6 (9781555581206)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Ruth Goldenberg is a senior member of the technical staff of Hewlett-Packard Company. She is an eminent authority on OpenVMS and the author of numerous publications about it.
Ruth Goldenberg is a senior member of the technical staff of Hewlett-Packard Company. She is an eminent authority on OpenVMS and the author of numerous publications about it.
Ruth Goldenberg is a senior member of the technical staff of Hewlett-Packard Company. She is an eminent authority on OpenVMS and the author of numerous publications about it.
Content
Introduction: System overview; I/O Architecture; Control Mechanisms: Interrupts and exceptions; Hardware interrupts and machine checks; Software interrupts; Condition handling; System service dispatching; ASTs; Synchronization: Synchronization techniques; Event flags; Lock management; Scheduling and time support: Time support; Scheduling; Process control and communication; Memory management: Memory management overview; Memory management data structure; Memory management system services; Paging dynamics; Working set list dynamics; The swapper; Pool management; Input/output: Overview of the I/O subsystem; I/O system services; I/O processing; Mailboxes; Miscellaneous I/O topics; Life of a process; Process creation; Image activation and exit; Translated image environent; Process dynamics; Process deletion; Life of the system: The modular executive; Bootstrap processing; Operating system initialization; Error handling; Error halt processing; Symmetric multiprocessing; Miscellaneous topics: Logical names; Miscellaneous system services; Appendixes: System processes and priveleged images; Use of listing and map files; SYSGEN parameters; Naming conventions; Data structure definitions; Size of system and P1 virtual address; Spaces; Summary of AXP systems; Lock and resource use by open VMS; Components; List of acronyms