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  2. From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.os.vms
  4. Subject: Re: Kermit on Itanium VMS
  5. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:41:16 +0000 (UTC)
  6. Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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  15. Xref: panix comp.protocols.kermit.misc:15849 comp.os.vms:515752
  16.  
  17. In comp.os.vms Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
  18. (snip)
  19.  
  20. > VMS is one of the few surviving OS's that pays serious attention to the
  21. > now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
  22. > compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary that
  23. > you find in the archive:
  24.  
  25. As I understand it, z/OS will still run OS/360 load modules, such
  26. as the PL/I compiler written and assembled over 40 years ago.  
  27. I don't believe the VMS currently can run any binaries over 40 
  28. years old.
  29.  
  30. -- glen