[Info-vax] Never Got Used To Those New-Fangled VMS Filename Extensions ...

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On 28 Jul 2024 15:14:17 -0400, Rich Alderson wrote:

> TOPS-20 (based on TENEX) used the .EXE extension on sharable
> executables, although TENEX used .SAV on both sharable and nonsharable
> executables.  Tops-10 used .SAV (or .LOW and .HGH for executables with a
> sharable segment), until late in the game when TOPS-20 style sharable
> executables came to Tops-10.
> 
> I believe that RT-11 got .EXE from the larger systems.

I think the significance of .SAV was that it was essentially a straight 
memory dump, so loading it into memory was very simple. Whereas .EXE 
required a bit more setup.