[Info-vax] VMS Software Releases Roadmap Updates

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 2:42:53 PM UTC+13, Dave Froble wrote:

> Well, trying to be fair, what difference does it make, as to which CPU 
> and OS is used to generate the OBJ and EXE files? It's all just ones 
> and zeros, right? 

I can think of one obvious problem with VMS, and that is how you represent the RMS attributes that are pretty much a mandatory part of the .OBJ format, if not .EXE, on other platforms? There’s no equivalent to such metadata on *nix systems, for example.