🚀 go-pugleaf

"IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR-R" wrote:

> Dear Sir or Ma'am:
>
>     I am an olde HP-3000 System Manager, and would like to be able to run
> MPE on my PC. There are of course two choices (a) emulating the HP-3000
> Classic (if it has not been written as yet, and if not, I plan to start a
> mailing list for it) or (b) getting a PA-RISC emulator (preferred, again if
> non existant, lets write one) to allow the boot of HP-3000 PA-RISC code.
>
>     Anyone aware of any of these existing?
>
>     I currently have an emulator which emulates the S/390
> (www.conmicro.cx/hercules), so there must be a way to emulate the 3000 if
> the IBM Mainframe can be emulated sufficiently to boot up CURRENT versions
> of OS/390, VSE/ESA, and VM/ESA (z/vm, z/os, z/vse!), as well as things as
> olde as VM/370, MVS 3.8, and other free OSes.
>
>     I (when I was in college, circa 1983 to 1988), was a VERY well
> accomplished HP-3000 person. I had gotten to the point of having written
> software to traverse sl.pub.sys and replace library calls (it was a research
> project of mine to write a replacement system call to allow DBDELETEs of
> Master Records along with all details in Image).
>
> Stuart
> Beverly Hills, CA, USA

First thought, when boxes are so cheap, why expend the effort.
second thought, if you get an Itanium processor, it does pa-risc.  There would
still be some boot stuff to sort out, but executing the code would be fast.