[Info-vax] Kermit on Itanium VMS

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

In comp.os.vms Frank da Cruz <fdc at 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 that
> 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.  
I don't believe the VMS currently can run any binaries over 40 
years old.

-- glen