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  2. From: Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer@gsi.de>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.os.vms
  4. Subject: Re: Kermit on Itanium VMS
  5. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:05:12 +0100
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  19. Xref: panix comp.protocols.kermit.misc:15853 comp.os.vms:515758
  20.  
  21. glen herrmannsfeldt schrieb:
  22. > In comp.os.vms Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
  23. > (snip)
  24. >  
  25. > 
  26. >>VMS is one of the few surviving OS's that pays serious attention to the
  27. >>now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
  28. >>compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary that
  29. >>you find in the archive:
  30. > 
  31. > 
  32. > As I understand it, z/OS will still run OS/360 load modules, such
  33. > as the PL/I compiler written and assembled over 40 years ago.  
  34. > I don't believe the VMS currently can run any binaries over 40 
  35. > years old.
  36.  
  37. I wonder if it can run binaries 20 years young.
  38. Or would a VAX binary of 1989 run on current Itanic hardware,
  39. out-of-the-box?
  40.