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From: koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Kermit on Itanium VMS
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Date: 31 Dec 2009 15:28:47 -0600
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In article <66772871-5558-46ea-b26f-643f201dac0b@d20g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, Ken Fairfield <ken.fairfield@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought compatibility mode was
> dropped after VMS 3.x. I do know that it stopped being shipped
> as part of base VMS, i.e., for at least a while it was a separately
> licensed product, but is it still available on VMS/VAX 7.3?
Compatability mode is a hardware capability that stopped shipping
during the VAX 8000 series. The OS support, called the RSX AME,
continued to ship as an optional product and added a compatability
mode emulator so that VAXen without compatability mode hardware
could still run RSX images.