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  • Hercules Emulator

    From Jason Brady@1:218/910 to All on Wed Oct 2 08:52:00 2024
    Hello All,

    Is anyone here using the Hercules mainframe emulator?

    Sean has mentioned mainframes and software such as REXX so I was wondering ifthere are other mainframe enthusiasts also using Hercules. Or it's your day job!

    Sadly not mine, but it's pretty amazing to run MVS, an O/S that used to require a room full of water-cooled hardware, on a small server box at home.

    Brings me back to my days as a console operator/tape ape/printer jockey in the 1980s.

    Regards,
    Jason

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Jason Brady on Wed Oct 2 16:37:15 2024
    Sean has mentioned mainframes and software such as REXX so I was wondering

    ifthere are other mainframe enthusiasts also using Hercules. Or it's your day job!

    I have not played with mainframes since the mid 80s when my first job was a backup operator.

    Sadly not mine, but it's pretty amazing to run MVS, an O/S that used to require a room full of water-cooled hardware, on a small server box at home.

    It is amazing what emulators can do. I run MBSE under Slackware Linux and thanks to DOSemu, I have several DOS doors and even participate using
    InterLORD in an IBBS league, all under Linux and DOSemu.

    I think I have several emulators tucked away in my filebase somewhere...

    -- Sean



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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to JASON BRADY on Thu Oct 3 10:03:00 2024
    Is anyone here using the Hercules mainframe emulator?

    I ran it for a while. The machine it was on got replaced and I have yet to
    add it back.

    Sean has mentioned mainframes and software such as REXX so I was wondering ifthere are other mainframe enthusiasts also using Hercules. Or it's your day job!

    It was my day job and may soon be again soon. I spent ~27 years in the
    land of COBOL and JCL. I enjoyed most of it.

    Sadly not mine, but it's pretty amazing to run MVS, an O/S that used to requir
    a room full of water-cooled hardware, on a small server box at home.

    I thought it was neat to set it up, too but, as it was so much different
    than what I used at work (OS-390, IIRC) I really never could get the hang
    of what to do with it. That is probably why I never reinstalled it.

    Brings me back to my days as a console operator/tape ape/printer jockey in the
    1980s.

    I was never an operator on a mainframe, but I did a couple of years
    performing operations on a Baby/36 and an AS/400.

    Mike

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