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  3. Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:45:57 -0500
  4. From: "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net>
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  9. Subject: Re: Kermit on Itanium VMS
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  24.  
  25. glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
  26. > In comp.os.vms Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com> wrote:
  27. > (snip)
  28. >  
  29. >> VMS is one of the few surviving OS's that pays serious attention to the
  30. >> now deprecated if not forgoteen concepts of stability and backwards
  31. >> compatibility from one release to another, so any VMS / IA64 binary that
  32. >> you find in the archive:
  33. > 
  34. > As I understand it, z/OS will still run OS/360 load modules, such
  35. > as the PL/I compiler written and assembled over 40 years ago.  
  36. > I don't believe the VMS currently can run any binaries over 40 
  37. > years old.
  38. > 
  39. > -- glen
  40.  
  41. Err. . .  How about RSX images in compatibility mode on a VAX 11/780 or 
  42. 11/750?
  43.  
  44. After all these years I have a little difficulty imagining why anyone 
  45. would want to but given sufficient incentives it's possible to do it.