19 Apr
2013
19 Apr
'13
8:02 a.m.
On 19/04/2013 04:19, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On 18 Apr 2013, at 19:09, "Andrew Hoerter" <amh at POBOX.COM> wrote:
The zVM evaluation will boot straight up on a recent build of
Hercules,
but not sure of the legality. Getting it so it runs from real disk
rather than emulated DVD is harder.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Dave McGuire
<mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
I do not at
present unfortunately. It seems the z/VM evaluation can work on Hercules with enough
work, but my knowledge of the internals of IBM stuff is minimal so I wouldn't be able
to set that up. On 04/17/2013 09:10 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Out of curiosity, do you have any of these running with a recent OS (z/OS,
z/VM)? When I investigated the possibility it seemed like you had to pay
IBM at least a few hundred bucks a month in licensing, I was wondering if
anything has changed for hobbyists now that even 64-bit z series machines
are available used at prices a mere mortal could potentially afford. >> I forget, do you have physical IBM
systems too? I know you have Cray
gear..
> I do.
Which ones?
z/890
S/370 9375
Multiprise 3000 (sorta counts)
P/390 (barely counts)
I wonder if there's an evaluation or hobbyist z/OS
release...
No.
(if you'd
rather not answer in public for some reason, I understand...)
-Andy