20 Apr
2006
20 Apr
'06
2:37 p.m.
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
If I either the P/390 or ARTIC960 were easily/cheaply
available, I might
consider this. But, I would rather create something that can be
cheaply duplicated, and not be fixed to a host hardware platform.
The ARTIC960 is definitely available cheaply and easily. I once bought
a box of about fifty. I sold them off piece by piece. And I know
they're still available.
The P/390 hardware/software combination can probably used to leverage
support for the ARTIC960 in Hercules.
I'd rather run Hercules on a Linux PC (or some
UNIX box), or use a real
S/390 (or ES/9000) that I've got than bother with acquiring an
expensive, slow, and hard to find P/390 or R/390.
It's actually pretty surprising the speed you can get with a P/390E card
on some of the harder-to-emulate operations that the P/390E does in
hardware.
In any case, if you feel the compulsion to write support for the
ARTIC960 in Hercules, I'd be happy to lend you a P/390 or two (and
software) to speed you on your way.
Peace... Sridhar