On Wed, 15 May 2013 06:00:44 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>According to IBM, you cannot get a z/OS license for a Hercules based
>machine. It has been asked for by many, for a hobbyist environment.
>
Perhaps more like WINE than like Hercules. You don't need z/OS
to run applications; only interface compatibility.
>Another emulator is Boch. It is an x86 emulator. As I recall, one person
>used this to run Windows, slowly, on an old pre-z machine. It would be
>interesting, to me, to have somebody do this on a zEC12 running full speed.
>I don't know if Windows can be licensed on this configuration, or not.
>
I believe there was a short thread on IBMVM LISTSERV about a week
ago, started by a vendor who's about to release such a product
commercially, offering a demo with a Linux x86 guest OS installed.
We'll see. Business case? If you have spare cycles on the z
("And who hasnt?" as Letterman says) you might as well use them.
-- gil
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