18 Oct
2011
18 Oct
'11
1:15 p.m.
From: vintagecoder at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 4:43 AM
When people wanted to port the IBM OS family to x86
they wrote Hercules to
emulate the hardware. The OS doesn't make sense on anything but System/360,
370, 390, Z, etc. It was easier to port the hardware than the software.
When IBM wanted to port the IBM OS family to POWER, they did the same thing.
(Z, in your list above.)
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
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