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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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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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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