Vms For Alpha Platforms Internals And Date Structures

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.

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. Provides a detailed treatment of the key architectural features of Alpha AXP systems Explores concepts which are equally applicable to the Alpha AXP family of processors and the internals of any modern-day symmetric multi-processing operating system running on a RISC computer Devotes each of the 39 chapters to explaining its topics in case study format

In this text, Smith and Nair take a new approach by examining virtual machines as a unified discipline and pulling together cross-cutting technologies. Topics include instruction set emulation, dynamic program translation and optimization, high level virtual machines (including Java and CLI), and system virtual machines for both single-user systems and servers.

Alpha Architecture Reference Manual, Third Edition is the authoritative reference on the definition of Alpha architecture. Revised by the Alpha Architecture Committee, this book contains a complete description of the common architecture required of all implementations and describes the interfaces to support the Windows NT, Digital UNIX, and OpenVMS operating systems. The third edition reflects the latest implementations of the architecture, including the 21164A, 21164PC, and 21264. Some of the extensions to the architecture and the enhancement to the technical content include: new byte and word load, store and sign-extend operations; new multimedia instructions; new population enumeration and floating-point square root instructions; new instructions to improve data cache efficiency and updated Windows NT section. The Alpha chip is the fastest chip on the marketplace today. It runs Windows NT, UNIX and OpenVMS operating systems. New base-level server configurations provide four times the memory of current systems. Contains updated Windows NT section to reflect current technical port to Alpha Includes new insights into the software aspects of the implementation Covers new multimedia instructions for increased performance with high-end graphics applications