The Digital Technical .Journal publishes papers that explore the technological foundations of Digital s major products. Each journal focuses on at least one product area and presents a compilation of papers written by the engineers who devel
oped the product. The content for the journal is selected by the journal Adl'isory Board, which includes four vice presidents and fiue senior engi
neering managers.
Topics covered in previous issues of the Digital Technical journal are as fol lows:
DECwindows Program Vol. 2, No. 3 Summer I990
An overview and descriptions of the enhancements Digital 's engineers have made to MIT's X Window System in such areas as the server, toolkit , interface language, and graphics, as well as contributions made to related industry standards
VAX 6000 Model 400 System W>l. 2, No. 2, Spring 1990
The highly expandable and configurahle midrange family of VAX systems that includes a vector proces
sor, a high-performance scalar processor, and advances in chip design and physical technology Compound Document Architecture
W>l. 2, No. I, Winter 1990
The CDA family of architectures and services that support the creation, interchange, ancl processing of compound documents in a heterogeneous net
work environment Distributed Systems W>l. 1, No. 9, ]une 1989
Products that al low system resource sharing throughout a network, the methods and tools to evaluate product and system performance Storage Technology
W>l. 1, No. 8, February 1989
Engineering technologies used in the design, manu
facture, and maintenance of D igital 's storage and information management products
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CVAX-based Systems li>l. 1, No. 7, A ugust 1988
CVAX chip set design and multiprocessing architec
ture of the midrange VAX 6200 family of systems and the MicroVAX 3500/3600 systems
Software Productivity Tools W>l. 1, No. 6, February 1988
Tools that assist programmers in the development of high-quality, reliable software
VAXcluster Systems W>l. 1, No. 5, September 1987
System communication architecture, design and implementation of a distributed lock manager, and performance measurements
VAX 8800 Family
Vol. 1, No. 4, February 1987
The microarchitecture, internal boxes, VAXBI bus, and VMS support for the VAX 8800 high-end multi
processor, simulation , and CAD methodology Networking Products
Vol. I, No. 3, September 1986
The Digital Network Architecture ( DNA), network performance, LAN bridge 100), DECnet- U L'TRIX and DECnet- DOS , monitor design
MicroVAX I I System
\1)/. /, No. 2, March 1986
The implementation of the microprocessor and floating point chips, CAD suite, M icroVAX work
station , disk controllers, and TK 50 tape drive VAX 8600 Processor
Vol. I, No. 1, A ugust 1985
The system design with pipelined architecture, the !-box, F-box, packaging considerations, signal integrity, and design for rel iabi lity
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lk>/. l No. 4 Fall 1?90 Digital Technical journal
Technical Papers and Books by Digital Authors Dileep Bh:mdarkar and Richard Brunner, " VAX Vector Architecture," Prnceedings of 1 7th Annual International Symposium on Computer A rchitec
ture (IEEE, May 1990): 204 -215
David G. Shurtleff and Colin Strutt, " Extensibil
ity of an Enterprise Management Director," in Network Management and Control, edited by A . Kershenbaum, M . Malek, and M . Wal l (New York : Plenum Press, 1990): 129- 14 1 .
Xi-Reo Cao, " System Representations and Per
formance Sensitivity Estimates of Discrete Event Systems," Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, vol . 3 1 ( 1989): 1 13- 122.
Xi-Ren Cao, "On a Sample Performance Function of jackson Queueing Networks," Operations Research,
voL 36, no. I ( 19S8): 128- 136.
Xi-Ren Cao and Y. C. Ho, " Estimating Sojourn Time Sensitivity in Queueing Networks Using Perturbation Analysis,"journa/ of Optimization Theory and Applications, voL 53, no. 3 ( 1987): 353-375 Xi-Reo Cao, " First-Order Perturbation Analysis of a Single Multi-Class Finite Source Queue," Performance Eualuation, vol . 7 ( 1987): .11 -4 1 .
D . Lomet and B . Salzberg, " Access Method for Multi
version Data," Proceedings of A CM SIGMOD Confer
ence (May 1989): 315-324 .
D. Lomet and B. Salzberg, " A Robust Multi-attribute Search Structure," Proceedings of International
Conference on Data Engineering (February 1989):
296-304 .
D. Lomet, "A Simple Bounded D isorder File Organization with Good Performance," A CM
Transactions on Database Systems 13, vol . 4 (December 1988): 525-55 1 .
P. Bernstein and 0 . Lomet, "CASE Requirements for Extensible Database Systems," Data Engineer
ing, voL 10, no. 2 (June 1987): 2-9.
W. Lin win and D. Lomet, "A New Method for Fast Data Search with Keys," IEEE Software, vol . 4 , no. 2 (March 1987): 16-24 .
D. Lomet, " Partial Expansions for File Organizations with an Index," A CM Transactions on Database Systen1s, voL 12, no. l (March 19R7): 65-84 .
Digital 'f'ecbnicaljournnl l·'tJ/. .! ,\b. -1 Fall JIJ'Jii
Digital Press
Digital Press is the book publishing group of Digital Equipment Corporation. Digital Press publishes books internationally for computer professionals, specializing in the areas of networking and data communication, artificial intelligence, computer i ntegrated manufacturing, windowing systems, and the VMS operating system. Digital Press welcomes proposals and ideas in these and related areas.
VAX/VMS: Writing Real Programs in DCL Paul C. Anagnostopoulos, 1989, softbound , 409 pages ($29.95)
X WINDOW SYSTEM TOOLKIT:
The Complete Programmer's Guide and Specification
Paul ). Asente and Ralph R . Swick, 1990, softbound, 1 ,000 pages ($44 .95)
UNIX FOR VMS USERS
Philip E. Bourne, 1990, softbound, )68 pages ($28.95)
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
STANDARDIZATION: Theory, Practice, and Organizations
Carl F. Cargi l l , 19R9, softbound, 252 pages ($24 .95) THE DIGITAL GUIDE TO SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT
Corporate User Publication Group of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1990, softbound, 239 pages ($27.95)
VMS INTERNALS AND DATA STRUCTURES:
Version 5 Update Xpress, Volumes 1 ,2 ,3,4,5 Ruth E. Goldenberg and Lawrence J. Kenah , 1989,
1990, 199 1 , all softbound (S27.95) VAX/VMS INTERNALS AND DATA STRUCTURES: Version 4.4
Lawrence J Kenah , Ruth E. Goldenberg, ami Simon F. Bate, I9SR, softbound, 979 pages ($75.00) THE USER'S D IRECTORY OF COMPUTER NETWORKS
Tracy L. LaQuey, 1990, softbound, 630 pages ($34.95)
COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AND
ARCHITECTURE: The VAX, Second Edition Henry M . Levy and Richard H . Eckhouse, Jr. , 1989, hardbound, 4 4 4 pages (S38.00)
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USING MS-DOS KERMIT: Connecting Your PC to the Electronic World
Christin� M. Gianon�. 1990, softbound, 244 pages, with Kermit Diskerte (529.95)
SOLVING BUSINESS PROBLEMS WITH MRP II
Alan D. Luber, 199 1 , hardbound, )00 pages (534 .95)
VMS FILE SYSTEM INTERNALS
Kirby McCoy, 1990, softcovcr, 460 rages (S·i9.95)
TECH NICAL ASPECTS OF DATA COMMUNICATION, Third Edition
John E. McNamara, 1988, hardbound, 38:1 pages (542.00)
LISP STYLE and DESIGN
Mol ly ivl. Miller and Eric Benson, 1990, softbound , 2 1 4 rages ($26.95)
THE VMS USER'S GUIDE
James F. Peters I I I and Patrick J. Holmay, 1990, softbound, .104 pages (528.95)
THE MATRIX: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide
joh n S. Quarterman . 1990, softbound, 719 pages ($49.95)
X AND MOTIF QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE
Randi J Rost, 1990, softbound , 369 pages (524 .95)
FlFTH GENERATION MANAGEMENT:
Integrating Enterprises Through Human Networking
Charles M. Savage, 1990, hardbound, 267 pages (528.95)
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A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO VAXNMS UTILITIES AND APPLICATIONS
Ronald M . Sawey and Troy T. Stokes, 1 989, softbound, 278 pages (S26.95)
X WINDOW SYSTEM, Second Edition
Robert Scheifler and James Geuys, 1990, softbound , 851 rages (S49.95)
COMMON LISP: The Language, Second Edition
Guy L. Steele jr. , 1990, 1 ,029 pages
($38.95 in softbound , £46.95 in hardbound)
WORKING WITH WPS-PLUS
Charlotte Temple and Dolores Cordeiro, 1990, softbound, 235 rages (£24. 95)
ABCs OF MUMPS: An Introduction for Novice and Intermediate Programmers
Richard F. Walters, 1989, softbound, 303 pages (525 .95)
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