OpenVMS Alpha Internals: Scheduling and Process Control

Download or read book OpenVMS Alpha Internals: Scheduling and Process Control written by Ruth Goldenberg and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1997-01-09 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.