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From: billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Kermit on Itanium VMS
Date: 29 Dec 2009 20:48:19 GMT
Organization: Computing Sciences Dept., University of Scranton
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In article <hhdm0s$eil$5@naig.caltech.edu>,
glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> In comp.os.vms Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
> (snip)
>
>> VMS is one of the few surviving OS's that pays serious attention to the
>> now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
>> compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary that
>> you find in the archive:
>
> As I understand it, z/OS will still run OS/360 load modules, such
> as the PL/I compiler written and assembled over 40 years ago.
> I don't believe the VMS currently can run any binaries over 40
> years old.
I understand the same is true of UNISYS and whatever it is they call
EXEC today (I last worked with EXEX 8 over 25 years ago and was truly
surprised when told my binaries could be run using the same ECL I ran
them with back then!)
bill
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