Raw vs Block Tape I/O - (nf)
guy%ucla-locus at sri-unix.UUCP
guy%ucla-locus at sri-unix.UUCP
Sat Jan 28 02:07:19 AEST 1984
From: Richard Guy <guy at ucla-locus>
My understanding from Charley Kline, Evelyn Walton, and other old-timers
from UCLA is that swapping from DECtape was done for some number of
months--in fact, that was the only mass-storage peripheral on the 11/45
at the time. The ENTIRE system was on DECtape--they wrote a new tape twice
a week to deal with tape wearout. Slow, yes. Workable, yes.
richard
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