[Default] On 1 Jul 2020 14:43:51 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
sme...@gmu.edu (Seymour J Metz) wrote:

>Comfort isn't the only issue. When they change the law such that the code no 
>longer complies, then you have to bite the bullet and update it? Lost the 
>source code? There could be legal consequences. YMMV.
>
>There used to be an operating system with no support for running from an 
>object deck; the compilers were fast enough that it wasn't an issue. I 
>sometimes think they had the right idea.

That reads like MUMPS or AS400/IBM-i.  I know AS400/IBM-i have changed
instruction sets.

Clark Morris 

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