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

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by Methem

Book: Recently I've been reading "Operating System Concepts" by Silberschatz and Galvin. Would that one help me to keep sane? Unlikely...

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.

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.

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