VMS Books

Note that this list has not been updated, so newer books may be missing.

General user and system manager books:

Title Author Publisher
A Beginner's Guide to VAX/VMS Utilities and Applications Ronald M. Savey, Troy T. Stokes 1991 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
Essential Guide to VMS Utilities and Commands version 5 Paula Sharick 1990 Van Nostrand Reinhold
The VMS User's Guide James F. Peters, Patrick J. Holmay 1990 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
The OpenVMS User's Guide Patrick J. Holmay 1998 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
VAX-VMS Primer Michael Wright 1992 Contemporary Publishing Co.
Introduction to VAX/VMS David W. Bynon, Terry C. Shannon 1992 Cardinal Business Media (former: Professional Press)
Introduction to OpenVMS David W. Bynon, Lesley O. Rice 1997 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
Mastering VMS David W. Bynon 1990 Cardinal Business Media (former: Professional Press)
VAX/VMS: Mastering DCL Commands and Utilities Daniel A. Sideris 1990 John Wiley & Sons
VAX/VMS Concepts and Facilities Jay Shah 1991 McGraw-Hill
Introductory Guide to VMS System Management Joesph Stith Van Nostrand Reinhold
OpenVMS System Management Guide Lawrence Baldwin 1995 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
VMS Systems Management Lesley O. Rice 1994 Prentice-Hall
High Performance Cluster Configuration System Management James E. Gursha 1997 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
OpenVMS Performance Management Joginder Sethi 1995 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
OpenVMS Performance Management: Tuning Techniques for OpenVMS/VAX and OpenVMS/AXP James W. Coburn 1995
VAX DCL Programmer's Reference VMS 5 K.M Leisner, D.B. Cook 1990 Van Nostrand Reinhold
VAX/VMS Writing Real Programs in DCL Paul C. Anagnostopoulos 1989 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
Writing Real Programs in DCL Paul C. Anagnostopoulos, Stephen Hoffman 1999 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
Getting Started with OpenVMS: A Guide for New Users Michael D. Duffy 2002 Digital Press
Getting Started with OpenVMS System Management David Miller 2003 Digital Press
OpenVMS System Management Guide Lawrence Baldwin, Steve Hoffman, David Miller 2003 Digital Press

Programming books:

Title Author Publisher
VAX C Programmers Guide Jay Shah McGraw-Hill
Writing VAX/VMS Applications Using Pascal Theo De Klerk 1991 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
Network Programming Under Vms/Decnet Phase IV and V Edward B. Toupin 1993 John Wiley & Sons
TP Software Development for OpenVMS John M. Willis 1995
VAX assembly language and architecture Charles Kapps, Robert L. Stafford 1985 Prindle, Weber & Schmid (PWS Publishers)
Introduction to VAX-11 Architecture and Assembly Language T.S. Frank 1987 Prentice-Hall
VAX-11 Assembly Language Programming Sara Baase 1983 Prentice Hall
VAX Structured Assembly Language Programming Sebesta Benjamin/Cummings
Assembly Language Programming for the VAX-11 Karen A. Lemone, Martin E. Kaliski Little 1983 Brown Computer Systems Series
Computer Programming and Architecture - The VAX Henry M. Levy, Richard H. Eckhouse 1989 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
OpenVMS: Architecture, Use and Migration Raj Bhargava 1995 McGraw-Hill
Software Implementation Techniques - VMS, UNIX OS/2 & MS-DOS Donald E. Merusi 1992 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
VMS Advanced Driver Techniques Jamie E. Hanrahan, Lee Leahy 1988 Cardinal Business Media (former: Professional Press)
Writing OpenVMS Alpha Device Drivers in C Margie Sherlock, Leonard Szubowicz 1996 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
Writing OpenVMS Alpha Device Drivers in C Margie Sherlock, Leonard Szubowicz 1999 Digital Equipment Corporation
Hitchhikers Guide to VMS - An Unsupported-Undocumented-Can-Go-Away-At-Any-Time Feature of VMS Bruce Ellis 1990 Cardinal Business Media (former: Professional Press)
Inside VMS: The System Manager's and System Programmer's Guide to VMS Internals Wayne Sewell 1992 Van Nostrand Reinhold
VAX/VMS Operating Systems Concepts David Donald Miller 1991 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
OpenVMS Operating Systems Concepts David Donald Miller 1997 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
VAXcluster Principles Roy G. Davis 1993 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
VAXclusters: Architecture, Programming, and Management Jay Shah 1991 McGraw-Hill
Vax I/O Subsystems: Optimizing Performance Ken Bates Cardinal Business Media (former: Professional Press)
VAX/VMS Internals and Datastrucutures Version 4.4 Lawrence J. Kenah 1988 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
VAX/VMS Internals and Datastrucutures Version 5.2 Ruth E. Goldenberg, Lawrence J. Kenah 1991 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
OpenVMS AXP Internals and Datastructures version 1.5 Ruth Goldenberg, Saro Saravannen 1994 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
VMS File System Internals Kirby McCoy 1990 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
VAX Architecture Reference Manual Richard A. Brunner 1991 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
Alpha Architecture Reference Manual Richard L. Sites 1992 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
OpenVMS with Apache, WASD, and OSU: The Nonstop Webserver Alan Winston 2002 Digital Press
The Minimum You Need to Know to be an OpenVMS Application Developer Roland Hughes 2006 Logikal Solutions

PathWorks books:

Title Author Publisher
The Complete Guide to Pathworks - Pathworks for VMS and DOS Kenneth L. Spencer 1992 Cardinal Business Media (former: Professional Press)
Pathworks: VMS Server and DOS Client Brad Cooper 1994 Butterworth-Heinemann
Destop Systems Integrations with Pathworks Al Cini 1993 Butterworth-Heinemann
Pathworks: PC Integration Software 1992 Butterworth-Heinemann
Pathworks V5 Network Administration Guide Ed Barfield 1995 Cardinal Business Media

Various books:

Title Author Publisher
UNIX for VMS Users Philip Bourne 1994 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
Windows NT for OpenVMS Professionals David A. Solomon, Debra J. Wasserman 1996 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
RDB: A Comprehensive Guide Lilian Hobbs 1995 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)
RDB/VMS: Developing the Data Warehouse W.H. Inmon, Chuck Kelley 1993 John Wiley & Sons
Using DECWindows Motif for OpenVMS Margie Sherlock 1993 Digital Press
Motif Programming: The Essentials and More Brian Marshall 1992 Butterworth-Heinemann (former: Digital Press)

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