VMS books

Tyler Aviss tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Dec 18 20:42:16 UTC 2008


I know a few companies that still use them, and back in college (9-10
years ago now) we actually did some work with COBOL on a VAX/VMS.

Sometimes having skills in uncommon things can be very helpful if the
job market goes downhill :-)

For those that might be interested, I found this section on HP's site
which seems fairly detailed. Not a book, but you could probably browse
around or download the HTML

http://h30266.www3.hp.com/odl/vax/opsys/vmsos73/vmsos73/6017/6017pro_contents.html


On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:48 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> | From: Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>
> | OT, but does anyone know any local bookstores that would carry books
> | on VMS/OpenVMS?
>
> I'm interested: why do you want to learn about VMS?
>
> That might affect what book you want to read.
>
> My impression has been that VMS's time has passed.  This may well be
> because of the circles I travel within.
>
> If you just want to learn about different OSes, there are probably
> more worthy ones.
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