VMS Bibliography
Updated 12/9/2006
This bibliography is based on posting to the Info-VAX mailing list
by
Professor David D. Miller, Arne Vajhøj and others, with
additions,
corrections, and formatting by Richard B. Gilbert
Some books may appear in more than one category. Some books may
be out of print.
Introduction to VMS for new Users
Bynon, David W. and Shannon, Terry C. Introduction
to VAX/VMS Cardinal Business Media
Duffy, Michael D. Getting
Started with OpenVMS
Digital Press, 2002, ~300 pages.
ISBN 1-55558-279-6
Peters, James F. III and Holmay, Patrick J. The VMS User's Guide, Digital
Press, 1990
Sawey, Ronald M. and Stokes, Troy T. A Beginner's Guide to VAX/VMS Utilities
and Applications, Digital Press, 1992. (Very
elementary. May be suitable for readers with little or no
computer experience.)
Sharick,
Paula The Essential Guide to VMS
Utilities and Commands, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 349 pages, ISBN
0-442-00266-1
Wright, Michael VAX-VMS Primer,
Contemporary Publishing Co.
Advanced VAX/VMS Users
Bynon, David W. Mastering VMS,
Cardinal Business Media, 1990
VMS Systems Management
Bates, Ken VAX I/O Subsystems:
Optimizing Performce, Cardinal Business Media (Formerly
Professional Press)
Coburn, James W. OpenVMS Performance
Management Tuning Techniques for OpenVMS/VAX and OpenVMS/AXP, 2nd
Edition, CBM Books
Gursha, James E. High Performance
Cluster Configuration System Management, Digital Press, 1997
EY-7853E-DP
Miller, David Donald Getting Started
with OpenVMS System Management, Digital Press 2003
Sethi, Joginder OpenVMS Performance
Management, Digital Press, 1995 EYQ-793E-DP
Stith, Joseph "Introductory Guide to VMS System Management", Van
Nostrand Reinhold 1992 ISBN 0-442-00403-6
Baldwin, Lawrence "OpenVMS System Management Guide", Digital Press,
1996 Order number EY-T119E-DP, ISBN 1-55558-143-9
Baldwin, Lawrence, Steve Hoffman, and David Miller "OpenVMS System
Management Guide, Second Edition", Digital Press 2003, ISBN: 1555582435
Introduction to VAX/VMS Internals
Ellis, Bruce "The Hitchhikers Guide to VMS" Cardinal Business Media
Levy, Henry M. and Eckhouse, Jr., Richard H. "Computer Programming and
Architecture - The VAX", Digital Press, 1989
Miller, David Donald "VAX/VMS Operating System Concepts", Digital
Press, 1990 ISBN: 1-55558-065-3 DEC Order Number EY-F590E-DP
Sewell, Wayne "Inside VMS: The System Manager's and System Programmer's
Guide to VMS Internals" Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992 ISBN: 0-442-00474-5
Advanced VMS Internals
Goldenberg, Ruth & Kenah, Lawrence J. "VAX/VMS Internals and Data
Structures" Digital Press 1991
Golderberg, Ruth E. and Saravanan, Saro "OPENVMS AXP Internals and Data
Structures" Digital Press 1994.
Goldenberg, Ruth E. and Saravanan, Saro "VMS For Alpha Platforms
Internals and Data Structures Preliminary Edition.
Vol. 1, 1992, ISBN 55558-095-5 (Softcover)
Vol. 2, 1992 ISBN 55558-105-5 (Softcover)
Vol. 3, 1993, ISBN 55558-109-9 (Softcover)
Digital Press
Hanrahan, Jamie E. & Leahy, Lee "VMS Advanced Device Driver
Techniques" Professional Press Books (now Cardinal Business Media), 1988
Schenkenberger, Brian W. "OpenVMS File System Internals", Butterworth-Heinemann, Jan 30, 2003
ISBN-10: 1555582699 ISBN-13: 978-1555582692
Linux and OpenVMS Interoperability : Tricks for Old Dogs, New Dogs and Hot Dogs
with Open Systems
by John Robert Wisniewski (Paperback - April 1 2003)
Sherlock, Margie and Szubowicz, Lenny "Writing OpenVMS Alpha Device
Drivers in C" Digital Press, ISBN: 1-55558-133-1
McCoy, Kirby "VMS File System Internals", Digital Press, 1990
DCL Books
Hoffman, Steven & Paul C. Anagnostopoulos, "Writing Real
Programs in DCL", Second Edition; ISBN: 1 55558 191 9 Digital
Press,
1999
Leisner, K.M. & Cook, David B. "VAX DCL Programmer's Reference, VMS
5" Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990, 256 pages. ISBN: 0-442-31840-2
Shah, Jay "VAX/VMS Concepts and Facilities" McGraw-Hill, 1991
Spencer "The Complete Guide to Pathworks" Cardinal Business Media
(formerly Professional Press), 1993
VAX Architecture and Assembler Language
Brunner, Richard A. "VAX Architecture Reference Manual", second
edition, Digital Press, 1991
Frank, T.S. "Introduction to VAX-11 Archtectute and Assembly Language"
Prentice-Hall 1987
Levy, Henry M, and Eckhouse, Jr., Richard H. "Computer Programming and
Architecture - The VAX", Digital Press, 1989
Kapps, Charles and Stafford, Robert L. "VAX Assembly Language and
Architecture", Prindle, Weber, and Schmid (PWS Publishers), 1985
Sebesta, "VAX Structured Assembly Language Programming",
Benjamin/Cummings
Baase, Sara "VAX-11 Assembly Language Programming", Prentice-Hall, 1983
Federighl, Francis D. and Reilly, Edwin D. "VAX Assembly Language",
MacMillan 1991
VMS Books
De Klerk, Theo. "Writing VAX/VMS Applications Using Pascal", Digital
Press, 1991
Davis, Roy G. "VAXcluster Principle" Digital Press, 1993
Merusi, Donald E. "Software Implementaion Techniques - VMS, Unix, OS/2
& MS-DOS", Digital Press, 1992 (Digital order number EY-J822E-DP)
useful. The book runs examples in parallel for all four systems -
sort of a Rosetta Stone.
Shah, Jay "VAX C Programming Guide", McGraw-Hill, 1992
Shah Jay "VAX Clusters: Architecture, Programming and Management",
McGraw-Hill
Sites, Richard L. "Alpha Architecture Reference Manual", order number
EY-1520E-DP, ISBN 1-55558-098X, Digital Press, 1992
Winston, Alan "OpenVMS with Apache, OSU, and WASD: the Nonstop
Webserver" Digital Press 2003 ISBN: 1-55558-2648
Hughes, Roland "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS
Application Developer" Logikal Solutions, 2006 ISBN 0-9770866-0-7
Available from Island
Computers
X Windows Books
Brain, Marshall "Motif Programming, the Essential...and More", Digital
Press
Scheifler, Robert & Gettys, James "X Window System: The Complete
Reference to XLIB, X Protocol, ICCCM, XLFD--X Version 11, Release 5"
Digital Press
Asente, Paul & Swick, Ralph "X Window System Toolkit; The Complete
Programmer's Guide and Specification" Digital Press
Rost, Randi J. "X and Motif Quick Reference Guide" Digital Press, 1993
Heller, Dan "Motif Programming Manual for OSF/Motif Version 1.1",
O'Reilly & Associates
Miscellaneous Books
Sandler, Corey and Benedict, Tom "VAX to VAX", John Wiley & Sons
1990
Simon, Alan R. "Application Migration: IBM to VAX", Van Nostrand
Reinhold 1992, 300 pages, ISBN: 0-442-00146-0
Pendhaarkar, Sumant S. and Biegel, Richard A. "dBASEIV for VMS and
UNIX: Technical Support Approach", Van Nostrand Reinhold 656 pages
ISBN: 0-422-00908-9
Malamud, Carl "Analyzing DECnet/OSI Phase V", Van Nostrand Reinhold 544
pages ISBN: 0-0442-00375-7
Martin, James, & Leben, Joe "DECnet Phase V, An OSI
Implementation", It has Digital order number EY_H882E-DP. ISBN
1-55558-076-9 PH ISBN 9-1-202987-1
Weinman, David G. "VAX Fortran, Second Edition", PWS-KENT Publishing
Company
Addresses
Contemporary Publishing Co.
508 St. Mary's Street
Raleigh NC 27605
Ph: 919-821-4566
Digital Press
80 Montvale Avenue
Stoneham, MA 02180
CBM Books (formerly Professional Press Books)
1300 Virginia Drive, Suite 400
Fort Washington, PA 19034
John Wiley & Sons
111 River Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774
Telephone: (201) 748-6000
Fax: (201) 748-6088
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
103 Morris Street, Suite A
Sebastopol, CA 95472
(800) 338-6887
(707) 829-0515
(707) 829-0104 (FAX)
PWS-Kent Publishing Company
20 Park Plaza
Boston, MA 02116
Van Nostrand Reinhold
115 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10003
(800) 926-2665