[Info-vax] VMS Software Inc. OpenVMS 8.4-1H1 Boots on i4 System

[David Froble]

JF Mezei wrote:
> On 15-03-20 00:31, David Froble wrote:
> 
>> Software doesn't wear out.
> 
> 
> Actually it does. Say you have package X which is no longer developped,
> and packages Y and Z which are still actively developped. Y and Z
> require newest version of the OS, but X does not work on new version of
> OS. You lose X.
> 
> (this happens a lot on OS-X since Apple widthdrew support for older
> frameworks and the PPC translator).
> 
> 
> 

I'm beginning to get the idea that people on c.o.v don't have any 
brains.  What's between your ears?

Even if you no longer have the environment to use it, your X is 
unchanged, and will (given it's original environment) continue to do 
what it did on the first day it was written.

Quite seriously people, if software changed all on it's own, how could 
you ever trust it?