Paul

Well that is a nice Christmas present.  As far as I know, you are the
first to report successfully running z390 on Mac/OS.  The execution trace
of the "Hello World" demo program demo\HELLO.MLC shows the assemly, link,
and execution worked.

All you need is the base z390 v1.5.03 install which you have already done.
All the regression test programs are in the optional zip file
z390_v1503_rt.zip which can be unziped to root z390 directory creating the
z390\rt directory including z390\rt\test subdirectory with the folling
instruction tests:

1) rt\test\TESTINS1.MLC - test assembly of all z1l z196 instructions

2) rt\test\TESTINS2.MLC - test execution of all problem state instructions
up to z9/z10

3) rt\test\TESTINS3.MLC - test execution of z9/z10 problem state
instructions

4) rt\test\TESTINS4.MLC - test execution of new z196 problem state
instructions

What you can do with z390 is develop and unit test mainframe assembler
code on Windows, Linus, and now MAc/OS.  The ASMLG command will assemble,
link, and execute HLASM compatible assembler program.  Limitations include
source must be in ASCII and only the system macros provided in z390\mac
directory are currently supported.  Although it is possible to upload OBJ,
it is highly recommended programs be reassembled from srouce for porting
to pickup correct system macro interfaces.  The common MVS compatible z390
system services macros are only compatible at the macro call interface
level and not the svc interface.

Don Higgins
[email protected]

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