Hercules v3.0.1
posted in Site News by spacetiger on Dec 1st, 2003Hercules, a multi-platform IBM mainframe emulator, has been updated to version 3.0.1. Here's what's new in the latest version:
- Bypass gcc 2.96 optimizer bug that caused incorrect instruction execution
- Added command-line control panel command history
- Added ALS4 (z/990) cryptographic instructions
- Fixed device interrupt pending on IPL that caused OS/360 to have to be IPLed twice
- Added pthreads trace function for debugging
- Fish threads code rewritten, closer to POSIX thread functionality while still performing better
- Fixed incompatibility with Windows NT telnet client
- Performance and integrity enhancements for RS instructions