18 Apr
2012
18 Apr
'12
1:09 p.m.
Note: I'm not asking about VAX hardware architecture, but about the
software architecture of the VMS operating system.
What were it's design goals?
What were the design trade-offs made that resulted in the specific
choices for VMS? Process scheduling? I/O? etc.
Is there a good book on this subject?
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18 Apr
18 Apr
2:02 p.m.
On 4/18/12 1:09 PM, Richard wrote:
What were the design trade-offs made that resulted in
the specific
choices for VMS? Process scheduling? I/O? etc.
It was an evolution of Cutler's RSX-11M with a lot of things added.
The process and I/O model are pretty much straight out of RSX-11M.
The various editions of "VMS Internals and Data Structures" talk about this
a bit.
10:20 p.m.
What were the design trade-offs made that resulted in
the specific
choices for VMS? Process scheduling? I/O? etc.
Is there a good book on this subject?
There are quite a few, depending on which version of VMS you're
interested in. Ruth Goldenberg was the author or a co-author
on most of the VMS internals books I've seen. A good place to
start is a search for anything she's written.
BLS
10:36 p.m.
blstuart at bellsouth.net wrote:
I haven't seen that specific book, but in general such books usually
tell what the software does, but not the engineering trade-offs that led
to it being done that way as opposed to some other way, which seems to
be what was requested.
What were the
design trade-offs made that resulted in the specific
choices for VMS? Process scheduling? I/O? etc.
Is there a good book on this subject?
There are quite a few, depending on which
version of VMS you're
interested in. Ruth Goldenberg was the author or a co-author
on most of the VMS internals books I've seen. A good place to
start is a search for anything she's written.
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