For decades, a quiet dream has lingered in the minds of enterprise IT veterans, retro-computing enthusiasts, and curious students alike: What if I could fire up IBM’s z/OS on my gaming PC?
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Hercules is a technical marvel. On a modest modern PC (4+ cores, 8GB+ RAM), it can emulate a multi-processor mainframe, complete with virtual channel-to-channel adapters, DASD (hard drives), and tape drives. People have successfully booted (a vintage 1980s operating system) and even z/OS 1.10 (a much newer, but still legacy, version) on Hercules running atop Windows or Linux. For decades, a quiet dream has lingered in