OSF/1 Internals

This student workbook provides a deep technical introduction to the OSF/1 operating system kernel, intended for system programmers and administrators. The material focuses on the OSF/1 implementation, which combines the Mach microkernel with parallelized 4.3BSD UNIX technology. The content is divided into 11 modules covering topics such as the process abstraction, threads, synchronization, virtual memory, file systems, device drivers, terminal I/O, streams, networking/sockets, the logical volume manager (LVM), the OSF/1 loader, and security.