Publisher's Synopsis
This book provides a detailed treatment of the key architectural features of Alpha AXP systems and 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. Each of the 39 chapters explains its topics in case study format.;The book describes the internals and data structures of the OpenVMS AXP operating system 1.5 in detail. It is suitable for operating system development engineers, operating system troubleshooting experts, systems programmers, consultants and customer support specialists, as well as for those interested in learning how OpenVMS AXP runs on the Alpha AXP family of processors.
