Re: Emulation of IBM i

I somewhat agree with Rob on this. It might be interesting to have for doing
some stuff at home as an educational or experimental thing. But I suspect
that cost would have to be so high on a new development like this that it
would be cheaper to rent space on a cloud system.

Regards,

Jim Hawkins
Programmer Analyst
Interkal LLC
Kalamazoo, MI

from: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [SUSPECTED SPAM] Emulation of IBM i

It's been done in the past with items like Baby/36 and it's successors.
The biggest problem in the past with those, in the past anyway, was that
many of us were not interested in solely a straight RPG only solution.
Some of those didn't even support CL. Now when you start throwing in all
the other stuff like APIs, PASE, etc it just starts getting much more
complex.
It also becomes really questionable as to whether something like that would
be around long enough to be dependable. And if it would keep upgrading
itself to stay current with TR's, new releases, etc. And how much they
would have to charge to have certain levels of functionality.
And is having a risky solution like that worth it just to have something
onsite vs the cloud?

What is the goal of this? To run on less expensive commodity hardware?


Rob Berendt
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From: "Jim" <jdonoghue04@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08/14/2018 08:38 AM
Subject: [SUSPECTED SPAM] Emulation of IBM i
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Just out of curiosity, does anyone think there is a use for an emulation
environment that could run on PC or laptop? Forget about the legal can of
worms it would open: If someone had a bunch of time and money to develop
such a tool, would anyone use it?