VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures: Version 5.2 [Paperback]

Lawrence Kenah (Author), Ruth Goldenberg (Author)

Book Description

Series: VAX-VMS | Publication Date: December 21, 1987

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.

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About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1427 pages
• Publisher: Digital Press; Photocopy edition (December 21, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555580599
• ISBN-13: 978-1555580599
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.1 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,669,259 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Bible of VAX/VMS internals, June 13, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures: Version 5.2 (Paperback)

I believe the previous reviewer had a different book in mind. This manual contains the gory details of how VMS operates on VAX systems. It provides information necessary and usefull to writers of privileged and kernel mode code, drivers, and other things that just can't be written in user context. A must have for VAX/VMS system programmers.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lame to be here after 5 years.... BUT..., December 20, 2005

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jpt "ChiefTechnologyOffender" (Arctic Area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures: Version 5.2 (Paperback)

Well, how to explain this?

I just checked my bookshelf, and connected the biggest challenges in our R&D to existing books and to books I should have, and it was evident, that if I/we would have more people who'd really understand the "message" of this book, we would have less unidentified challenges in our development....

We can argue about the implementation of VMS (or OpenVMS or what ever), but the persons who understand the "big picture of Design" can really make The Difference... Every person who feels to be "superior" and "really knows" how things are/should-be/or-what-ever in Linux/FreeBSD/Windoes/OrWhatever should make sure that they have really read AND understood this book....

Worth of reading, what ever "OS religion" you happen to confess.