16 Mar
2000
16 Mar
'00
9:55 p.m.
In the 'Are you as crazy as me' catagory, I just found something that looks
really, really cool. Anyone for running OS/360 on your Linux box? If so
meet Hercules!
http://www.snipix.freeserve.co.uk/hercules.htm
http://jmaynard.home.texas.net/hercos360/
Something tells me I just found a use for that Dual 400Mhz Celeron I've got,
as this looks to require some *SERIOUS* horsepower to run!
OH, Wow!!! :^)
Zane
PS now if I wasn't *still* stuck at work with problems! :^(
17 Mar
17 Mar
2:50 a.m.
[Hercules?]
I'm playing with that right now. :P Have been for awhile.
It's pretty funny, having OS/360 and TSO on a PC... :P
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3:50 a.m.
[Hercules?]
I'm playing with that right now. :P Have been for awhile.
It's pretty funny, having OS/360 and TSO on a PC... :P
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I tried to hit the hercules web page and it appears to be down.
(Doing mainframe stuff on a pc has long been a dream of mine (I used to
do sysadmin on a 4381).
-Bob
Bob Brown
Saved by grace
Intranet Sysadmin Page: http://info1.harper.cc.il.us/~bbrown
10:35 a.m.
[Hercules?]
I'm playing with that right now. :P Have been for awhile.
It's pretty funny, having OS/360 and TSO on a PC... :P
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So, I've found the places to get OS/360 from, but from reading the doc's it
looks like you've got to build a system. Is there anywhere that has a
prebuilt system available for download?
Zane
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3:51 a.m.
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 12:55:17AM -0800, healyzh(a)aracnet.com (healyzh(a)aracnet.com)
wrote:
In the 'Are you as crazy as me' catagory, I
just found something that looks
really, really cool. Anyone for running OS/360 on your Linux box? If so
meet Hercules!
http://www.snipix.freeserve.co.uk/hercules.htm
http://jmaynard.home.texas.net/hercos360/
Something tells me I just found a use for that Dual 400Mhz Celeron I've got,
as this looks to require some *SERIOUS* horsepower to run!
An acquaintance of mine is running Linux as a guest OS on his S/390,
and Hercules running 0S/390 in that, and Linux in that. He's currently
working on level four. :-)
-Rich
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------------------------------ Rich Lafferty ---------------------------
Sysadmin/Programmer, Instructional and Information Technology Services
Concordia University, Montreal, QC (514) 848-7625
------------------------- rich(a)alcor.concordia.ca ----------------------
8:35 a.m.
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 09:51:50AM -0500, Rich Lafferty wrote:
An acquaintance of mine is running Linux as a guest OS
on his S/390,
and Hercules running 0S/390 in that, and Linux in that. He's currently
working on level four. :-)
OK, this guy is in desparate need of a noogie!!!
But anyway, is Hercules really that good? I'd actually been recently thinking
that I might try to justify having D Bit cough up the $7,500 to get Open/370
(only FunSoft's web site is a lot more confusing now so I don't know if it's
even *that* simple), but if there's a really complete 370 emulator for free
that would be great! Having to buy it a fast Athlon to live on is small
potatoes compared to the cost of Open/370. And it's *all* nothing compared
to what a year's electricity must cost for even a smallish ES/9000.
If you told me 15 years ago that some day I'd feel nostalgic about MTS, I
would have laughed at you... Well at least I'm not to the point that I'd want
to see an emulation of that nasty Memorex half duplex terminal/plotter/clock
concentrator!
John Wilson
D Bit
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