On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 09:32:57 -0600, Britz, Anton - CO 7th <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>... >I am still not sure why anybody would want to run an IBM operating >system on a PC. > >The only possible reason is "Commercial Software" written for the IBM >operating System , that you want to port to a PC platform ... If you know that is the only possible reason then you don't need to ask, do you? But perhaps you've realized there may be other reasons. >... >So my conclusion with all these simulators/Hercules etc is that it is >because we have a lot of bored and confused MVS/zOs System programmers >that wants to make the whole world speak IBM. >... I don't know what all you are grouping together in "all these simulators/Hercules etc". The topic of this thread "1401 simulator for OS/360" is quite different than the other non-Hercules PC-based OS/360, 370, 390, z/OS packages that have been discussed or wished for here. There is no commercial value in this simulator. There is little educational value (that I can see) other than an example developing a simulator of one set of hardware on another. And why look beyond Hercules itself for that?) There is probably something here I am missing, but this sounds like pure and (not so) simple fun to me. Hobby work. It reminds me of the "GlowWorms" groups where people work with vacuum tube radios. "... bored and confused ..."? Sounds more like people that enjoy their kind of work so much that they can do it for fun. And it sounds like that is a foreign concept to you. If so, it's your loss. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
