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Getting Started With OpenVMS: A Guide for New Users
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Author: Michael D Duffy
List Price: $44.95
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ISBN: 1555582796
Publisher: Digital Press (13 November, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 452,787
Average Customer Rating: 2 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
A Dead End
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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