Good job!! Thanks for working so hard on this.

Computer simulation is one of my favorite past-times, although I admit I've never taken the time to really set up and play with Hercules. I should, because IBM is a totally foreign environment for me. I grew up in the DEC and UNIX world, so it would be fun to try to wrap my mind around the new concepts.

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Funny you should have a KL-10 as your icon for this one...I recently downloaded the panda distributon of TOPS-20 and tried to play with it, and got thoroughly frustrated at having to use EMACS for everything.

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Heehee! That's always the way, isn't it? The tools we're used to using are the ones we feel the most productive in. I've always enjoyed TOPS-20 and even VMS, though UNIX seems to be the abusive relationship I keep coming back to.

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True. I've got a real VMS box (a VAX 4000-105A), and have played around a bit with it; it didn't feel as alien to me as TOPS-20. How do the two compare, anyway?

I've been doing Unix for 18 years now. It's very comfortable for me, even though it's wildly different from the MVS I grew up on.

BTW, if you want to get a running environment under Hercules quickly, I'd recommend the Turnkey MVS distribution, available at my ibiblio collection page.

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