Howard Rifkind wrote:
Greetings all,
I’ve just read through the posts on Hercules.
I’ve heard about it but don’t know much about this software.
Does it run on a PC in Windows, Linux…what?
Is Hercules a shell for z/VM and/or z/OS and if so where does one get
legal copies of both?
Being that I’m still on the beach I’d like to know where I can find
out more about Hercules and install it on my home PC.
Being out since the end of March … thanks to lay offs at the bank I
worked for isn’t much fun and a mind is terrible thing to loose.
If I had something at home to fool around with, that would be great
and perhaps keep some of my skill warm.
Thanks
Hercules provides S/370, S/390 and System z architecture emulation on
the x86 architecture (Windows or Linux). It's legality typically raises
some questions, particularly when people want to run current levels of
System z software on it. There are significantly older levels of
mainframe software that the Hercules maintainers claim are unencumbered
by such things.
You can run Linux on System z on Hercules, this is equivalent to running
Linux in an LPAR.
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