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>No free developer OS distributions or licenses, (so no way to run them on an emulator), no freely available emulators for modern hardware & OS releases, nothin
by nix23 4y ago
>No free developer OS distributions or licenses, (so no way to run them on an emulator), no freely available emulators for modern hardware & OS releases, nothing.
Distro:
https://wotho.ethz.ch/tk4-/ https://wotho.ethz.ch/tk4-/
Update to Distro:
http://www.prince-webdesign.nl/index.php/software/update-on-mvs-turnkey-4 http://www.prince-webdesign.nl/index.php/software/update-on-...
Emulator:
https://github.com/SDL-Hercules-390/hyperion https://github.com/SDL-Hercules-390/hyperion
It's a MVS TK4- distribution and probably 99% of a z/OS functionality plus it's Public Domain.
Or VM/370 another Public Domain OS from IBM:
http://www.vm370.org/vm http://www.vm370.org/vm
Or even better you run MVS TK4- inside VM/370...for the real taste ;)
But if you really really want z/OS (i have no clue why you would do that) you click here:
https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education/zxplore https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education/zxplore
(Formerly know as Master the Mainframe)
And some yt's to have a little base-knowledge (mostly MVS and VM/370):
https://www.youtube.com/c/moshix https://www.youtube.com/c/moshix
- naikrovek 4y agohere we go, thank you!
- js8 4y ago> It's a MVS TK4- distribution and probably 99% of a z/OS functionality plus it's Public Domain. MVS TK4- is very old compared to z/OS. It's like comparing Berkeley Unix to Linux. Yeah, the system calls are similar but there is so much missing. Not to mention, to understand mainframes, you really need access to the whole SW ecosystem, which includes stuff like DB2, CICS, MQ, IMS.. these are building blocks for applications.
- nix23 4y agoTrue, but you can install KICKS instead of CICS ;) But you are right, if you want that, got to zexplore. If you want a taste of Mainframes then MVS and VM/370 are a excellent starting point. BTW: If you understand "Berkeley Unix...whatever that is" then Linux is a piece of cake...not that ~much has changed.
- naikrovek 4y agoi'm sure you're right, but it's much closer than where I am today. I would like access to a proper z/OS machine so I can write some Go, but right now I'll take what I can get. And thank you for this information, I didn't know this. I don't know anything about this stuff.