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Summary: A very good start on the OpenVMS journey
Review: This book covers all the essentials needed by the new user to become familiar and comfortable with OpenVMS in a easy to understand and well written style.I would say that anyone with an interest in OpenVMS should have this book on his or her shelf.
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Summary: A Dead End
Review: VMS was the operating system of Digital Equipment Corporation, founded by Ken Olsen, whose most famous quote, circa 1987, was that "the PC is just a toy". And DEC ended up being bought by Compaq, a PC company, which in turn was bought by HP. Who still uses OpenVMS? This is surely a niche, and not growing, at best. Even when DEC still existed, VMS was overtaken by the various unixes, in part because those had less of a vendor lockin. Plus those were easier to writing scripts in. The use of pipes in unix for redirecting input/output is far more intuitive that VMS's approach. The VMS language is horribly opaque for that. To the extent that HP supports OpenVMS, it is via a barely concealed intent to migrate its users to HPUX/linux. If nothing else, it reduces HP's overhead, to not have to support another fully fledged operating system. If you want to have a programming future, avoid OpenVMS and this book. A total dead end.
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Summary: A Dead End
Review: VMS was the operating system of Digital Equipment Corporation, founded by Ken Olsen, whose most famous quote, circa 1987, was that "the PC is just a toy". And DEC ended up being bought by Compaq, a PC company, which in turn was bought by HP. Who still uses OpenVMS? This is surely a niche, and not growing, at best. Even when DEC still existed, VMS was overtaken by the various unixes, in part because those had less of a vendor lockin. Plus those were easier to writing scripts in. The use of pipes in unix for redirecting input/output is far more intuitive that VMS's approach. The VMS language is horribly opaque for that. To the extent that HP supports OpenVMS, it is via a barely concealed intent to migrate its users to HPUX/linux. If nothing else, it reduces HP's overhead, to not have to support another fully fledged operating system. If you want to have a programming future, avoid OpenVMS and this book. A total dead end.
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