I am running 6 old OS'ses on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8G - including Multics. All over Tmux and ssh tunnels. Working great.
There is no problem running on a Mac either, Hercules Helper (git clone?) makes building either of them very, very easy on macOS and Ubuntu (like in starting it and visiting the coffee machine easy.)
On modern Pi's I run the latest versions the helper decides to check out. I agree with Dave for the older PI's.
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On 18 Mar 2025, at 19:27, Dave Wade via groups.io <dave.g4ugm@...> wrote:
On 18/03/2025 16:36, BlameTroi via groups.io wrote:
This may be a dumb question, but I couldn't find anything helpful after searching here in groups and generally on the web.
I'm wanting to rebuild my first serious shop in my home: VM hosting DOS/VS. I see that there are Hercules Aethra and SDL Hercules versions. Is there any reason to prefer one over the other for running VMCE?
I don't believe for any of the 370 based OSs such as VM/370 R6 which is the base for VM/CE there is any difference. In fact at the risk of irking Jay and Fish I would say that on a PI one of the 3.X releases might work better as they are a little lighter.
From my reading a while back, MacOS security is a pain in the butt for Hercules and some other software.
I am not a Mac guy, but I think this is only a problem when running post 370 operating systems which have network interfaces....
While I'm a Mac guy these days, I have old but Windows 11 capable Intel boxes and a few of the various Pi boards, including a 4, available. Are Pis sufficient for VM and possibly DOSVS?
I haven't run Hercules on a PI for a while. Its slow, I believe it gives a similar performance to 4331/4341/4361 class machine. Give it a try..
Thanks.
Dave
G4UGM
