Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!obrien@rand-unix From: obrien%rand-unix@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Raw vs Block Tape I/O - (nf) Message-ID: <16070@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 14:09:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16070 Posted: Fri Jan 27 14:09:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Feb-84 15:30:24 EST Lines: 6 Back in the days when a big UNIX system was a fully loaded 11/45 with RK05 disk drives, TU10 magtape and TU56 DECtape, it was not at all uncommon to have a stripped-down UNIX on a DECtape for emergency use when the root pack became corrupted and a disk drive broke. Run off DT0, swap on DT1. It was slow but really tended to save lives in emergencies.