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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: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:58:04 -0800 (PST)
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On Dec 30, 12:45=A0pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber...@comcast.net>
wrote:
> glen herrmannsfeldt 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 th=
e
> >> now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
> >> compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary th=
at
> >> 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.
>
> > -- glen
>
> Err. . . =A0How about RSX images in compatibility mode on a VAX 11/780 or
> 11/750?
>
> After all these years I have a little difficulty imagining why anyone
> would want to but given sufficient incentives it's possible to do it.
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?
-Ken