OS400 emulator for Windows?
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Metron
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I did find (unbelievably... since why would you want your PC to emulate a mainframe?) a couple of mainframe emulators:
Hercules Version 3... Hercules is a software implementation of the System/370, ESA/390 and z/Architecture mainframe architectures. Hercules runs under Windows and Linux, as well as under various other Unix or Unix-like systems on Intel Pentium and other hardware platforms including Alpha, Sparc, and Mac.
A commercial product from 1998, FSI FLEX-ESL is based on the FLEX-ES ESA/370 'S/390 on Intel' emulator and when running under an Intel Pentium-II 400 MHz processor achieves approximately 7 to 8 MIPS of S/390 processing power. The FLEX-ES emulator allows you to use an IBM ESL license to run all the latest releases of IBM's mainframe operating systems including OS/390 2.6, VSE/ESA 2.3 and VM/ESA 2.3. Older releases of these operating systems are also fully supported.
No warped minds building OS/400 emulators that I've found... yet. If I remember correctly though if you're running VM on a machine, you can create virtual environments of any operating system... including OS/400.
So you could run Hercules or FSI FLEX-ESL, with a VM/ESA 2.3 operating system license, create and load an OS/400 environment under VM, and then load your OS/400 application. Maybe. Scary. :shocked:
Bear in mind you'd need to obtain the appropriate licenses from IBM in order to run modern versions of the operating systems, which could be very cost prohibitive.
You'll probably also need at least a 9 track tape drive... SCSI attach drives for around $1,000.
Hercules Version 3... Hercules is a software implementation of the System/370, ESA/390 and z/Architecture mainframe architectures. Hercules runs under Windows and Linux, as well as under various other Unix or Unix-like systems on Intel Pentium and other hardware platforms including Alpha, Sparc, and Mac.
A commercial product from 1998, FSI FLEX-ESL is based on the FLEX-ES ESA/370 'S/390 on Intel' emulator and when running under an Intel Pentium-II 400 MHz processor achieves approximately 7 to 8 MIPS of S/390 processing power. The FLEX-ES emulator allows you to use an IBM ESL license to run all the latest releases of IBM's mainframe operating systems including OS/390 2.6, VSE/ESA 2.3 and VM/ESA 2.3. Older releases of these operating systems are also fully supported.
No warped minds building OS/400 emulators that I've found... yet. If I remember correctly though if you're running VM on a machine, you can create virtual environments of any operating system... including OS/400.
So you could run Hercules or FSI FLEX-ESL, with a VM/ESA 2.3 operating system license, create and load an OS/400 environment under VM, and then load your OS/400 application. Maybe. Scary. :shocked:
Bear in mind you'd need to obtain the appropriate licenses from IBM in order to run modern versions of the operating systems, which could be very cost prohibitive.
You'll probably also need at least a 9 track tape drive... SCSI attach drives for around $1,000.
Actually after a little more research the answer is no. VMWare will only run x86 type OSes.
Although after reading your post Hercules appears to be the asnwer for OS/390. Thanks Metron.
Although after reading your post Hercules appears to be the asnwer for OS/390. Thanks Metron.
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