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> Dear lazyweb, has anyone been able to get this going on the Herculus emulator?

I don’t think it’d be easy to obtain tape images for installing it or disk images to run it. This was licensed software IBM really dislikes when someone runs it without a license. It also wasn’t that popular back in the day.

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interesting: it did appear pretty popular behind the iron curtain (as did e.g., PL/I, home-PC sized PDP11s, and other seemingly well designed but less commercially successful western technologies.)

https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/IBM/370/

This might be it.

It's not AIX/370 though.

You can get a modern Unix running under Hercules pretending to be a more modern mainframe if you want it though. Red Hat, SUSE and Canonical have versions for it, as well as FreeBSD and NetBSD, although I don't think there is anyone using those two seriously.

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