Re: non-ASCII environment
Stephen Powell writes:
> Yes, Hercules is an IBM mainframe emulator. But the problem is
> licensing. There are some *very old* releases of IBM operating
> systems that have passed into the public domain that you can run on
> the Hercules emulator.
Which should suffice for testing his software with EBCDIC.
> These are circa 1975 or so, which is about 35 years ago. An example
> is VM/SP Release 6. The problem is that those operating systems don't
> have a C compiler or a POSIX interface.
Are there any copies of MTS (Michigan Terminal System) around? It would
be in the public domain and I know it had a C compiler: I used it to
teach myself C.
My wife would love to have MTS back again (of course, she'd insist on a
full set of printed manuals...)
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John Hasler
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