[Info-vax] VMS Software Releases Roadmap Updates

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On 9/28/21 4:26 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> 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.
> 
On IA64 and x86 these are ELF.