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> The biggest barrier to entry is getting a mainframe to experiment with. Is there a barrier to emulating these systems? It's probably difficult (illegal?) to
by jacobwcarlson 10y ago
> The biggest barrier to entry is getting a mainframe to experiment with.
Is there a barrier to emulating these systems? It's probably difficult (illegal?) to emulate the various Tandem operating systems on virtual hardware, but I'm sure there's a way.
I'd be shocked if there wasn't a turnkey AS/400 VM available.
- rollthehard6 10y agoIt's trivial to emulate old versions of z/OS, have a look at Hercules - http://www.hercules-390.org/ http://www.hercules-390.org/ Not sure about OS/400 (IBM i) emulation, but you can get accounts to play with it seems - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3487895/as400-emulator-or-virtual-machine http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3487895/as400-emulator-or...