If you are going to include OS compatibility as well as hardware
compatibility then there are issues such as control blocks that have been
moved above line. 

Charles


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Subject: Re: z/OS use of "legacy" programming languages

> The only thing which might not work would
> be something which was CPU speed dependent.

That's not the only thing. A program that relies on getting certain program
interrupts might fail. Then there's the ASCII bit, although I would be very
surprised if anybody actually used it. There are optional instructions that
IBM carried over. There's probably more that I haven't thought of.

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