IBM S/370 & ESA/390 Emulation

From: John Wilson <wilson_at_dbit.dbit.com>
Date: Fri Mar 17 13:35:35 2000

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
Received on Fri Mar 17 2000 - 13:35:35 GMT