It's thanks to Rick Fochtman that mainframe enthusiasts can today run MVS at home. In 1999, during the early days of Hercules development, Rick sent me a set of XMIT files containing some unloaded OS/360 libraries (NUCLEUS, LINKLIB, SVCLIB, etc) dating from the early 70s. This provided the motivation to get Hercules working and prove that it was possible to run classic IBM operating systems on a cheap PC. Subsequently it inspired others to do the same with MVS 3.8, which at the time could still be ordered on tape from IBM.
So I salute Rick as a pioneer of software archeology. Regards, Roger Bowler Hercules "the people's mainframe" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
