You won't believe what I felt when I saw the prompt. Congratulations, this is a terrific software. I really have not had such a fascinating and interesting time on my PC lately.
Hercules is a fine piece of software! He had gotten all the information about how to do this from the Internet. When he complained about MVS console configuration and figuring out how to get it to work with VM, I knew he had felt all the pain he ever needed to feel about mainframes.
The Hercules emulator is an amazing feat of engineering. Of course now we have laptops with better specs than these mainframes. And just like there are emulators that let you run old video games on your PC, you can actually get a mainframe emulator as well. OK, but then you need to actually have an OS to run on that emulator. Since IBM still markets mainframes e. IBM, by corporate policy, does not assert copyright ownership of any software which it distributed without copyright notices.
That results in a structure like this:. But they contain the OS and all kinds of other stuff. When you start up the virtual mainframe, it boots from those drives and starts a number of terminals, including a console session and a number of terminal sessions.
Back to the documentation, which includes the magic command:. Free mainframe emulator is provided by Freefloat. There is a very big difference between a mainframe emulator and a mainframe terminal emulator. If one is interested in running a "mainframe" on the pc i suggest looking into Hercules or the Z assembler and emulator which can be found here:.
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Use in a production or commercial or institutional environment is prohibited, unless specific written permission is obtained from the author. All rights reserved. Known Problems See the bugs page for a list of known problems and fixes. Latest News Feb 26, - Sim version 1. It has improvements to the user interface, a new HTML help file, support for changing the font in local sessions, better and more complete emulation of floating-point instructions, and a minor bug fix for the IPM instruction.
Includes support for high-memory areas and bit address mode. Please note that previous updates upd1, upd2, and fortg are prerequisites for upd3.
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