As promised, here are the first steps to get Slack/390 running on your Hercules emulator!
Preparation
0) Get Hercules installed & running
See my previous post if you don’t have Hercules yet.
Note
I am a GNU/Linux user, but I know Hercules works under Windows and Mac OS X as well.
If you use one of them, some steps on this [...]
Recently I renewed my interest in the IBM mainframe computers.
From a colleague I learned about a program called Hercules that emulates a complete IBM mainframe system, from the early S/360 to the newer z/Architecture machines.
I already knew that Linux runs on these machines, so I started imagining running Slack/390 (the official S/390 port of Slackware) [...]
Last Friday lots up upgrades were released for Slackware-current, including a new kernel, 2.6.27.5Since changing a kernel usually has some consequences, I waited until today, Sunday, to apply all upgrades.As anticipated, my VMware-server stopped working. Normally I run the /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl script to reconfigure VMware and recompile the needed modules for the new kernel.But this time [...]
The big split
The first versions of Bell Labs’ Unix. also known as ‘Research Unix’, included the full source code, allowing universities to improve and extend the operating system. As I wrote in the previous post in this series, UCB did a lot to add to Unix and created its own distribution – BSD.The first version [...]
Needing a new language
The first crude version of Unix was written in assembler language on the PDP-7 and later the PDP-11. But Ken Thompson thought it should be written in a higher-level language. In 1971 he first experimented with Fortran, but according to some stories, he gave up after only one day. He then [...]
This is what makes computing fun – you learn something new every day.
Today there was a post on LinuxQuestions.org by w1k0, who reported something strange with the Linux logo on his ThinkPad T60. The colors were all wrong (Tux had a green belly, blue background) and… to the left-side there was an inscription saying “Simon”.
I [...]
In the beginning there was…
CTSS, the Compatible Time-Sharing System, developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computation Center and first demonstrated in 1961. It had some interesting features like:
inter-user messaging (what we would call ‘e-mail’ nowadays)
a program called RUNCOM, that could execute several commands put together in a file – like modern-day shell scripts
RUNOFF, [...]
I am a big fan of Lego. Unfortunately I haven’t had much time lately to build anything, but I try to keep up-to-date with the latest news.Yesterday I read that famous department store Neiman Marcus has a new item in it’s Christmas Catalog: A life-size sculpture of you made from Lego.
Price-tag: $60,000.00 (does not include [...]
For some time I’ve been reading texts on the history of Slackware, Linux, UNIX, etc. It all started with this old Slackware version I found and my quest to get this (and several older) versions working in a Virtual Machine on my modern desktop.
I’ve been using virtualization and emulation for several years, both professionally and [...]
Well, I finally managed to get a higher resolution in VMware, at least with Slackware 4.0I discovered that VMware-server 1.0.7 still includes the drivers for XFree86 3.* & 4.*
In XFree86 3.* there is a separate “server” for each type of interface: one for monochrome cards (who remembers Hercules?), one for simple VGA, one for SVGA, [...]
Dutch guy living in Brazil. Has worked in the IT business since it was invented (well, almost...). Interests: Slackware, Lego, Star Wars.