Although Windows 98 and Windows NT are possible candidates for running Hercules, their use is not recommended because of limitations in stability (especially Windows 98), limited networking capabilities and lack of support.Ģ.2.2 Installed Software on a Hercules System The Hercules Emulator runs under Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003. The following table shows how much space is occupied for each virtual DASD volume on your PC hard disk(s) for some of the supported device types. The runtime Hercules system requires only small amount of disk space. The disk storage requirements for Hercules depend entirely on your requirements. The more RAM installed in the system the better Hercules will perform. 2 or more Pentium Quad Core processors with 2.66 GHz or equivalent processors (optimal).Pentium with 3 GHz (Dual or Quad Core) or equivalent processor (good).Pentium with 2 GHz or equivalent processor (average).Pentium with 1 GHz or equivalent processor (moderate).Pentium with 500 MHz or equivalent processor (minimal).It also has been built, installed and run successfully on an Alpha 21164, SPARC and on z/Architecture Linux/390 systems. Hercules does not necessarily depend on the Intel Pentium architecture.
The Hercules emulator runs under Linux on several hardware platforms in-cluding the Intel Pentium PC, under Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Solaris, FreeBSD and under MAC OS X 10.3 and later. Hercules is an open source software implementation of the mainframe System/370, ESA/390 and z/Architecture hardware. Getting Application Development System(ADCD)ĥ.1 Creating the Hercules Configuration File
3.2 Installation Steps (MSVC Windows Installer Package)Ĥ.