[Info-vax] Kermit on Itanium VMS

[Paul Sture]

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

> 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.
> 

Here's the oldest I have come across:

        Image Identification Information

                image name: "PLANE"
                image file identification: "01"
                link date/time: 15-JUL-1980 14:14:33.43
                linker identification: "02.44"

And on VMS V7.3 (with SIMH):

$ r plane
ENTER 0 FOR VT05, 1 FOR VT52 :1
AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENT FLIGHT SIMULATION GAME
DO YOU WANT INSTRUCTIONS ? Y
 
THIS PROGRAM PROVIDES A PSEUDO-GRAPHIC VIDEO
PRESENTATION OF A PILOTS INSTRUMENT PANEL,
WITH REAL-TIME UPDATES AT 1 SECOND INTERVALS.
 
THE FOLLOWING KEYS ARE YOUR CONTROLS-

...

Unfortunately I don't have a VT52 emulator to run it on, and the sources 
seem to be long lost :-( 

On the other side of the coin, stuff in PHP is not only actively 
deprecated, but spits out some pretty ugly warning messages to make sure 
you notice.

One example:

<http://php.net/manual/en/function.split.php>

-- 
Paul Sture