Vax/Vms Internals and Data Structures Version 5.2 (VAX-VMS S.)

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Summary: The Bible of VAX/VMS internals
Review: 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.

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Summary: A VMS bible - a *must* book for VMS system people.
Review: This book does a *superb* job of explaining the insides of VMS - how it works, whys of implementation, data structures everything.

I used this book as a system administrator for several real-time VAX/VMS projects, and this book made a huge difference for me - no other VMS book explains so well how VMS keeps time and the fine details of scheduling.

I only wish this book would be updated for the latest version of VMS and for the Alpha processor - this book is (for now) two major releases behind the actual releases.