Re: Emulation of IBM i

Holger, you are right, aside from the intellectual interest.


A project like that is doomed to failure from the start. Reason:
Privileged instructions and system state items cannot be replicated on to
Intel simply because those instructions don't exist. You might be able
to mimic the behavior but in the end it's doomed. Writing an OS with
single level storage might be possible on Intel, but that's ignoring all
the work that is done by IOP/IOA cards and such.

I get that having a portable system to carry around is a great thought, but
IBM tried it, unsuccessfully, a while back. True that box required a
twinaxial console, and was limited in storage due to the technology of the
day, but in the end it really did not have the market support anyway..
Today's processors would melt into slag too quickly to be workable in a
portable unit, so that's out.

Sorry but reality has a habit of raising it's head now and then.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 9:38 AM, Holger Scherer <hs@xxxxxxx> wrote:

(Vendors response)

Well, why fuddle around with an emulation when there is some of us
providing IBM i hosting?

Or maybe a free playground at pub400.com

-h

Am 14.08.2018 um 14:38 schrieb Jim <jdonoghue04@xxxxxxxxx>:

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?

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