Reviews for Open VMS Alpha Internals and Data Structures: Memory Management

The average rating for Open VMS Alpha Internals and Data Structures: Memory Management based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-06-28 00:00:00 P Simmons This book is information light. A lot of time is dedicated to explaining the basic concepts of an OS instead of giving VMS-specific examples of how to do things. The preface says that it assumes new users are familiar with Windows or, hopefully, UNIX. It then makes no further references to either of these OSes. As an example of this, there is a brief footnote during the user-creation section sating "There is no root user equivalent in OpenVMS". That's it. No other explanation is given in regards to comparing VMS to other, more widely used OSes. The concept of root is so integral to UNIX that I would have liked more than a short-sentence footnoted comparison. The section on "How to log in" is about 40 pages into the book. There is also way to much "For more information on this, ask your System Manager". If I asked my System Manager everything this book wants me to, I'd be spending all day on the phone with him. I understand that this is a "Getting Started"-type book, but it's really too light. I know the difference between a GUI and CLI, but this book spends 2 whole chapters discussing it. Buy it used.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-08-13 00:00:00 ktqxqtcy catuiile Reads like an advertisement for SAP.