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# The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator
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## Hercules 4.0 (Hyperion)
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**Hercules** is an open source software implementation of the mainframe
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System/370 and ESA/390 architectures, in addition to the latest 64-bit
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z/Architecture. Hercules runs under Linux, Windows,
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Solaris, FreeBSD,
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and Mac OS X.
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Hercules is [OSI Certified Open Source Software](http://www.opensource.org/)
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licensed under the terms of the [Q Public Licence](http://hercules-390.github.io/html/herclic.html).
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2014-12-30 08:51:07 -08:00
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The **Hyperion** version of Hercules is the official development version of
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the Hercules emulator and contains the latest bleeding edge changes made by Hercules
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developers to address various bugs that may exist in the production version.
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2014-12-30 08:43:34 -08:00
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Hercules was created by Roger Bowler.
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Jay Maynard "the Tron Guy" was the maintainer from 2000 to 2012.
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Jan Jaeger designed and implemented many of the advanced features of
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Hercules, including dynamic reconfiguration, integrated console,
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interpretive execution and z/Architecture support. A dedicated crew of
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programmers is constantly at work implementing new features and fixing bugs.
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### To find out more about Hercules 4.0 Hyperion, follow this link: [Hercules 4.0 (Hyperion)] (http://hercules-390.github.io/html/)
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