[Info-vax] Kermit on Itanium VMS

[Michael Kraemer]

glen herrmannsfeldt schrieb:
> 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 wonder if it can run binaries 20 years young.
Or would a VAX binary of 1989 run on current Itanic hardware,
out-of-the-box?