November 20th, 2008 by Niels Horn in Hercules, Linux, Slack/390, Slackware | No Comments »
…Continuing from Part 2
Configuring Hercules
So now we have Hercules installed and working and downloaded everything we need to install Slack/390 on it.
But first we need to configure our mainframe (tell the emulator which devices it needs to emulate, where they are, etc.).
Hercules uses a configuration file named hercules.cnf and looks for it in the directory [...]
November 20th, 2008 by Niels Horn in Hercules, Linux, Slack/390, Slackware | No Comments »
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 [...]
November 20th, 2008 by Niels Horn in Hercules, Linux, Slack/390, Slackware | No Comments »
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) [...]
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