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Re:COBOL on Wheelchair: Micro web-framework for COBOL by 7speter on Monday October 23, 2023 @06:57PM (#37992749)
Can you not run a virtual mainframe environment on a modern pc?
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Re:COBOL on Wheelchair: Micro web-framework for COBOL by tyingq on Monday October 23, 2023 @07:27PM (#37992992)
You can run a very old environment (MVS) legally on a PC, or a very new one (z/OS) either illegally, or with lots and lots of cash.

The emulator itself isn't the issue, it's the OS.

https://sdl-hercules-390.github.io/html/

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Re:COBOL on Wheelchair: Micro web-framework for COBOL by jakobson14 on Monday October 23, 2023 @08:30PM (#37993507)
Suffice to say, you don't just go download your favourite open-source operating system in the mainframe world. You pay IBM a shitload of money for their proprietary one.

There is linux-on-Z but that's a completely different environment, intentionally. It's basically running linux in a virtualized environment (the only kind of environment on a mainframe) so that stuff expecting POSIX can run on the same hardware as mainframe jobs.

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