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Re:GnuCOBOL 3.1.1 by kjs3 on Friday December 11, 2020 @01:30PM (#25388944)
I remember that story. I don't think he ever got it working. There's a lot to getting a real mainframe running, starting with some onerous licensing terms for the software. And the cost to power one would be ugly.

There were some actual 'personal mainframes' made by IBM. The PC/370 was a PC or PC/AT with a set of ISA bus mainframe processor addin cards. The PC became the I/O processor. The PC/390 was a later version based on a PS/2 running OS/2. All long obsolete now.

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Re:GnuCOBOL 3.1.1 by galoisgirl on Saturday December 12, 2020 @05:02AM (#25397172)
He did, his talk about it is really interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk

> He and his old computer friends played around with some applications that were on the platform, and even made an FTP server that put some data on the internet.

Per https://www.fastcompany.com/3063265/this-teenage-ibm-employe...

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Re:GnuCOBOL 3.1.1 by kjs3 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @02:37PM (#25434083)
Fun, thanks for that. I clearly stopped paying attention too early. Awesome they stuck to it.
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