List of Sidebars

Chapter 2: Hardware Platforms Supporting OpenVMS

"CISC" versus "RISC" architectures

Chapter 5: Logging in and Out of the System

Login Failures

Chapter 6: The Digital Command Language

DCL Keywords

Why Are They Called Lexical Functions?

Bitwise Versus Logical Operators

Chapter 7: The User Environment

Why Are Programs Stored As Sequential Files?

Default Versus Home Directory

What the Command SET DEFAULT Really Means

Why Call It 000000?

Chapter 10: System Security

Hackers Versus Crackers

Chapter 13: Text Editors

Why Hardcopy Terminals?

Why "^M" Sometimes Appears When ENTER or RETURN Is Pressed

Chapter 16: Your Personal OpenVMS System

The Autoboot Console Feature

Chapter 22: DECnet Details

LANs