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While having mainframe hardware at home is rather impractical not to mention costly there is an alternative which can be run on limited hardware: Hercules is a
by the_third_wave 3y ago
While having mainframe hardware at home is rather impractical not to mention costly there is an alternative which can be run on limited hardware:
Hercules is an open source software implementation of the mainframe System/370 and ESA/390 architectures, in addition to the new 64-bit z/Architecture. Hercules runs under Linux, Windows (98, NT, 2000, and XP), Solaris, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X (10.3 and later).
http://www.hercules-390.org/ http://www.hercules-390.org/
I tinkered with this a bit some 25 years ago, running it on Linux on an Abit BP-6 (dual 400 MHz Celerons overclocked to 466 MHz, just imagine the power...) [1], just for fun really. It booted and I managed to run some simple tools on it so it should do more on up to date hardware.
[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/343/5 https://www.anandtech.com/show/343/5