Re: [SUSPECTED SPAM] Emulation of IBM i

[Jim <jdonoghue04@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm thinking about an emulation at the MI layer, and most likely emulation
of certain stuff below it (SLIC layer). In theory, anything you could
install and run on the real thing, you could install and run in the
emulation. It's probably too large and complex, and full of too many legal
problems, but I'm curious if it's useful in this day and age where there
are so many cloud-based options already.

Jim


On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 8:51 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It's been done in the past with items like Baby/36 and it's successors.
> The biggest problem in the past with those, in the past anyway, was that
> many of us were not interested in solely a straight RPG only solution.
> Some of those didn't even support CL.  Now when you start throwing in all
> the other stuff like APIs, PASE, etc it just starts getting much more
> complex.
> It also becomes really questionable as to whether something like that
> would be around long enough to be dependable.  And if it would keep
> upgrading itself to stay current with TR's, new releases, etc.  And how
> much they would have to charge to have certain levels of functionality.
> And is having a risky solution like that worth it just to have something
> onsite vs the cloud?
>
> What is the goal of this?  To run on less expensive commodity hardware?
>
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> From:   "Jim" <jdonoghue04@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Date:   08/14/2018 08:38 AM
> Subject:        [SUSPECTED SPAM] Emulation of IBM i
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> Just out of curiosity, does anyone think there is a use for an emulation
> environment that could run on PC or laptop? Forget about the legal can of
> worms it would open: If someone had a bunch of time and money to develop
> such a tool, would anyone use it?
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