On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 09:56:32PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:17:27 -0400 (EDT), Philipp Kern wrote: > > ... > > Technically using Hercules is probably your best bet[*]. It should be able > > to do MIPS similar to your existing z800 on contemporary x86-64 hardware. > > (You'll certainly know for how many MIPS your existing machine was > > sized and Hercules does display them.) You might need to be careful with > > relation to I/O, of course. > > ... > > Aye, there's the rub. CPU emulation is slow, but I/O emulation is really slow. > But I'm looking forward to Hercules 4.0, which promises an I/O subsystem > restructure, which should help in that regard. Incidentally, the version > of Hercules currently packaged for Debian, 3.07, was released by upstream > more than five years ago. There have been many enhancements, performance > improvements, and bug fixes since then. I'd love to see the Debian hercules > package updated. The current production upstream release is 3.11, released > on September 15, 2014. 3.07 was released on March 10, 2010. What is the canonical place to get new Hercules releases from? It's neither http://www.hercules-390.org nor https://github.com/hercules-390/hyperion Kind regards Philipp Kern
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