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, Windows NT, and Windows 2000.
Hercules was created by Roger Bowler and is maintained by Jay Maynard. Jan Jaeger designed and implemented many of the advanced features of Hercules, including dynamic reconfiguration, integrated console, interpretive execution and z/Architecture support.
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Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to see OS
running on a machine that I personally own.
Hercules is a marvelous tool. My thanks to you all for a job
very well done.
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Reed H. Petty
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I do miss my mainframe a lot, and playing with Herc sure brings back
memories. Just seeing the IBM message prefixes, and responding to
console messages again was a wonderful bit of nostalgia!
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Bob Brown
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Congratulations to you and your team on a fine piece of work!
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Rich Smrcina
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Congratulations on a magnificent achievement!
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Mike Ross
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It works even better than I imagined.
Hercules is a fine piece of software!
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Dave Sienkiewicz
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I have installed your absolutely fantastic /390 emulator.
You won't believe what I felt when I saw the prompt.
Congratulations, this is a terrific software.
I really have not had such a fascinating and interesting
time on my PC lately.
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Senior Systems Engineer
Read Moshe Bar's BYTE.com article about Hercules, original URL shown, links to an archived copy at the internet archive. http://www.byte.com/documents/s=429/byt20000801s0002/
Last updated 1 Sep 2024