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       2023-06-28T15:13:37Z
       
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       One of those technical oddities that falls out of forever-upward-compatibility app requirements…Somebody (Hi, JR!) had to write a compiler that accepts and parses VAX assembler (DEC’s “the architecture of the ‘80s”) and produces x86-64 object code; ELF and DWARF to feee into a linker.Yes, you can still assemble, err, compile your 1980s-era VAX assembly source code, and can now run it on an OpenVMS system on x86-64.No word yet on plans for Arm AArch64. 😈#retrocomputing #VAX #DigitalEquipmentCorporation