[Info-vax] Kermit on Itanium VMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <hhdm0s$eil$5 at naig.caltech.edu>,
	glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> 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.

I understand the same is true of UNISYS and whatever it is they call
EXEC today (I last worked with EXEX 8 over 25 years ago and was truly
surprised when told my binaries could be run using the same ECL I ran
them with back then!)

bill

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