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Re:The IBM System/360: the first modular, general-purpose co... by emersonrsantos on Thursday August 25, 2016 @04:56PM (#12362434)
You can run bare bones OS/360 using hercules-390 [1], which emulates old and new mainframe architectures.

You can play with OS/360 versions like MFT and MVT, read source code (or try!), do a system generation (recompile the "kernel") and run ita facilities.

Hercules-390 has a very active community [2].

PS: OS/360 and many other older IBM systems are now public domain and have almost all source code available.

[1] http://www.hercules-390.eu

[2] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bercules-390

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Re:The IBM System/360: the first modular, general-purpose co... by jim02672 on Thursday August 25, 2016 @10:32PM (#12363959)
Typo fixed:

[2] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hercules-390

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