Title: Sometimes useless
Product review: I use this book from time to time. I work with quite a few different models of VAX and AlphaServer machines. The first part of Appendix C has many of the commands necessary to boot VMS with various options -- but not all of them.The book is incredibly dated, too. While it has most VAX models, which went out of production 15 years ago, it doesn't have all the Alpha models. And the boot commands for Alpha are buried in the middle of the text instead of being included in the Appendix. Fortunately, all Alphas use the same boot commands.This book doesn't include the HP Integrity servers (which replaced Alpha), which has a much more complex boot process. Of course, this book was written way before those servers were invented.I'm hoping that the new book (OpenVMS System Management Guide (HP Technologies)) might be more up-to-date.OpenVMS System Management Guide (HP Technologies). I'll be checking it out soon.
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