Publisher's Synopsis
For users of the DEC OSF/1 operating system as well as for systems engineers interested in writing UNIX-based drivers, this book discusses how to write device drivers for computer systems running the DEC OSF/1 operating systems. A disk is also supplied.;By following the task-oriented approach, the reader should acquire the skills necessry to write OSF-based device drivers. Mastery of the concepts and examples presented in this book provides a fundamental background for writing a variety of device drivers, including disk and tape controllers, and more specialized drivers, such as array processors. The book also features information on OSF-based kernal interfaces, and source code listings for the driver examples are supplied on the disk. a glossary of device driver-related terms is also included.
