Honeywell Bull
DPS6
GCOS 6 MOD 400
System Concepts

• Introductory Material (9�pages, 1.5MB))
  • Cover
  • Preface
  • Contents
• Section 1: System Characteristics (7�pages, 1.0MB)
  • System summary
  • Operating Facilities
  • Software Facilities
• Section 2: File Concepts (48�pages, 7.8MB)
  • Disk File Conventions
  • Magnetic Tape Conventions
  • Unit record Device File Conventions
  • Remote File Access
• Section 3: System Access (25�pages, 3.7MB))
  • System Configuration and Definition
  • User Registration
  • Accessing the System
  • Menu Environment
  • Command Environment
  • Command Accounting
  • Command Beaming
  • EC abd START_UP.EC Files
• Section 4: Execution Environment (40�pages, 5.9MB)
  • Task Groups and Tasks
  • Memory Mamagement and Protection
  • Memory Pools
  • Bound Unit Characteristics
  • Swap Pool Task Address Space
• Section 5: Task Execution (30�pages, 4.7MB)
  • Central Processor Interrupt Priority Levels
  • Interrupt Save Area
  • Task Dispatching
  • Timeslicing
  • Trap Handling
  • System Features Affecting Task Execution
  • Task Handling
  • Task States
  • Intertask and Intratask Group Communication
  • Deferred Processing Facilities
  • Task Handling
• Section 6: Backup and Recovery (22�pages, 3.3MB)
  (pages 6-22 of this are off-center and need rescanning)
  • File Backup and Reorganization
  • Power Resumption
  • File Recovery
  • File Restoration
  • Checkpoint Restart
• Glossary (48�pages, 5.8MB)
• Manual Directory (1�page, 111KB)
• Index (22�pages, 3.6MB)