VAX/VMS

[Dlusional]

Could someone please point me into a direction of where to find VAX Demo's/info and VMS Demo/Info?

I'd like to approach this as if one has never heard of it, so that's the kind of information I'd be looking for.
someone that doesn't know anything about it, and would like to avail themselves etc....

If you could let me know, I'll check back here

Thanks in advance
Dlusional

 

[Mpatt]

If you haven't alredy then try the newsgroup

news:comp.os.vms


which is very active and has a lot of helpfull subscribers.

 

[mjpearson]

Please, please, please find out as much as you can and write a book: "VMS for dummies". I'll buy it. I know enough to be dangerous but I haven't learned enough to figure out that I'm in in over my head.

mike

 

[SilentDeb]

mjpearson, there's a few books out there that might be of use to you ...
The OpenVMS Users Guide (

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=sr_1_1/104-3368090-9771107?v=glance&s=books)

sounds like it'd be a huge help. My own favourites seem to be out of print (I bought mine about 10 years ago), but I'll include them here just in case you can find them - and I bought these back in the days when I was our IT department's <i>secretary</i> and was able to make use of them, so they're probably about pretty close to a 'For Dummies' version! ;-)

Introduction to VAX/VMS (

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=sr_1_4/104-3368090-9771107?v=glance&s=books)

VAX VMS Primer (

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...sr_1_16/104-3368090-9771107?v=glance&s=books)

Mastering VMS (

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...sr_1_17/104-3368090-9771107?v=glance&s=books)

That last one in particular is priceless. Hope that helps a bit!

Deb

 

[jlshp]

If you go to Amazon and search on 'VMS' you'll find lots of books.

But don't forget to check out the OpenVMS website from HP:

http://www.openvms.compaq.com/

All you wanted to know about OpenVMS, including the full documentation set (which has a pretty good users guide, unlike most other operating systems).

Also there's the

http://www.openvms.org

website. Lots of information there as well.

 

[jlshp]

Sorry to follow up my own post....

Also see Phil's VMS Tutorial page:

http://www.yrl.co.uk/~phil/vms/vms_tutorial.html

and there's a VMScluster on the internet to check things out:

http://deathrow.vistech.net/