DPS8M R3.0.2 is coming soon.
DPS8M R3.0.2 will be an incremental release that includes bug fixes and performance enhancements developed over the last year, and is intended to get these improvements into the hands of our users before the release of the next major version of the simulator, which will include new features (and potentially breaking changes).
DNF/Yum repositories for DPS8M are available.
If you use an RPM-based Linux distribution with the DNF (or Yum) package manager (including Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Amazon Linux 2, and compatibles such as Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, EulerOS, etc.) you can keep your DPS8M current with automatic updates.
The repositories are served securely via TLS and only primary DPS8M Development Team members (and GitLab CI, which builds the packages) control the files served from the ‘dps8m/repo’ namespace. You can also view the GitLab CI logs to examine how these packages are generated from our official binaries.
I was recently approached by a friend who needed some help getting DPS8M running on an Android tablet.
The DPS8M simulator has been running on Android devices for a long time now, with early support initially committed back in November 2014, targeting Android 5 Lollipop, by Charles Anthony. This was done in response to a post to the mailing list from a Multics user waiting for the day that a full Multics system could run “in your pocket”.
Finally, you can run dozens of multiprocessing Multics instances along side your mission-critical IBM AIX (PASE) and IBM i (OS/400) workloads on IBM Power Systems hardware!
This is the virtualization solution your IT department has been waiting for… well, perhaps it isn’t — but supporting this platform is a great demonstration of both the capabilities of the IBM PASE for i (Portable Application Solutions Environment) runtime for enabling OSS on IBM i, and the excellent compatibility and portability of the DPS8M simulator software.
