...been lost, leaving you with a binary you can't recompile, as well as a big headache. Compaq's answer was to use a VAXVMS emulator sitting on an Alpha processor. "In terms of the application, it will run as fast, if not faster, than it...
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2002/04/02/186136/crunch-time.htm
...ancient history now, I remember working with applications that were developed for early versions of Digital Equipment’s VAX/VMS operating system that worked quite well five versions later. Digital spent a great deal of time and energy thinking about...
http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=1025
...would I know how many hours I've worked!). It was, in fact, the first Windows app I ever wrote - I'd been pure Vax/VMS (oh yeah, baby!) before that. It's probably the last time I wrote a C++ application without any STL in it...
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