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LzLabs kills Swisscom’s mainframes – but it's not the work of a vicious BOFH: All the apps are now living on cloud nine

James Anderson

Hercules

For decades now you could run mainframe software on x386 and up using the open source Hercules emulator.

The main problem is IBM won't license the software to run on the kit -- or if they do they charge eye watering M/F prices.

So it looks like they interpret machine code but trap the CICS, DB2 type calls and emulate them with Postgress.

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