seek on raw magtape
auerbachkarl%b.mfenet at lll-mfe.arpa
auerbachkarl%b.mfenet at lll-mfe.arpa
Sat Jan 11 04:37:08 AEST 1986
Way back when, some folks at UCLA used DECtape for the Unix swap
device. I heard that it actually ran!
(DECtape was a random-access tape unit that DEC once made for PDP-8
and PDP-11 machines. The tape was pre-formatted, much like disk packs.)
--karl-- (Karl Auerbach, Epilogue Technology Corp.)
Auerbach#K%MFE at LLL-MFE.ARPA
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