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From: Ken Fairfield <ken.fairfield@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Kermit on Itanium VMS
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:59:50 -0800 (PST)
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On Dec 29, 11:41=A0am, glen herrmannsfeldt <g...@ugcs.caltech.edu>
wrote:
> In comp.os.vms Frank da Cruz <f...@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 tha=
t
> > 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. =A0
> I don't believe the VMS currently can run any binaries over 40
> years old.
Since VMS is only 30 years old (barely), it shouldn't be too
surprizing cf. the 40 years noted above. :-) OTOH, user
programs linked under VMS 1.0 (necessarily VAX) will still
run on VMS 7.3 (VAX), with small caveats concerning access
to system structures, etc., that change with O/S version...
-Ken