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Subject: Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond
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According to Thomas Koenig  <tkoenig@netcologne.de>:
>But maybe you can also run a 360/30 on an FPGA board, somebody
>has apparently implemented it in VHDL from the logic diagrams:
>https://github.com/ibm2030/IBM2030

IBM made several S/360 and S/370 add-in boards for PCs. They worked
but were never very popular, probably because nobody bought a
mainframe for the CPU and PC peripherals are underpowered.

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