Think about this...........could be fun!!!

[Methem]

Originally Posted by VAXman

I'll have to look this up to see if you're actually reading something worthwhile.

I googled and found a series of PDFs. The definitions in the "clustered" section are already flawed. The definition is based on the braindamaged, flawed, and jejune capabilities of Weendoze and unix systems... True clustering is MORE than just a sharing of storage. This treatise also looks at clustering as either asymmetric or symmetric. Where's the shared everything model/view which VMS has? It's the clustering model all others wish to aspire to but cannot.

Can't say anything on that...

By the way, the book at least mentions VMS once in a while; probably more often than HP does... Be glad for that.

The treatment of virtual memory is pretty basic too. Page table translation is limitied to a single translation buffer lookaside in the discussions I've found. There isn't a single modern processor that is structured this way. There doesn't appear to be a discussion of multi-tiered page translation, translation buffer invalidation, granularity hints, huge paging, page protection mapping and myriad other virtual memory concepts.

Well, the book, AFAIK, is used in various places such as colleges for teaching, so I guess it's relatively basic because of that. But don't worry: I'm not reading it for any exams or anything like that; just for the sake of curiosity.

Maybe you should consider another book for your desert island reading.

Well, perhaps you could suggest something? Are, for example, Tanenbaum's books on the subject similar?

Thank you for these comments anyway.


-Methem

[Methem]

Originally Posted by Methem

By the way, the book at least mentions VMS once in a while; probably more often than HP does... Be glad for that.

On the other hand, the edition I've been reading is actually several years old. Perhaps that's the reason why VMS is still mentioned in it...


-Methem

[kirk]

WOW!! a 2 year thread boink! The new avatars keep threads looking
fresh if the date's missed.

Hmmmm... looks like I need to catchup on that Triumvirat cd,
w/ a x2 recommendation from Chris and the Dr.!

'Never known either to let me down, or waste my $$.

k