Thread: support for IBM/360/370/S-390 code on the Kindles (KUAL)
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Old 08-30-2013, 11:08 AM   #53
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Two of the publicly released mainframe systems have successfully been run on my desktop now:

VM/370 and S390/MTS

Which leaves:

OS/360 and S370/MVS
to be played with.

Then I can figure out how to 'squeeze' them into a Kindle's storage resources.

For instance, what I am calling S390/MTS is archived by the University of Michigan as it was run on a duplex, 3090-Model 400:
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ex...423PH3090.html
Which requires Hercules ESA/390 emulation mode to run.

But run it does, in a 4 processor, simplex (single machine) version.
And the device emulation files take just a tad bit more than 1Gbyte of storage.
That 1Gbyte of storage would be a very sizable chunk of the storage available on the Kindle Paperwhite.
So a bit of "fat trimming" will have to be done to the installation image.

The "S390/MTS" work is being published here:
https://bitbucket.org/knc1/kindle-s390-mts
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