Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!cepu!scw@ucla-locus From: scw%ucla-locus@cepu.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: RE: tapes as mass storage -(nf) Message-ID: <16083@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 18:04:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16083 Posted: Fri Jan 27 18:04:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Feb-84 15:33:25 EST Lines: 14 From: Steve WoodsWell, if you really want to be diskgusted (Ha,Ha) I recall one day watching a friend of mine running OS\8 on a PDP-12, using a TU-10 as the masstorage device. Talk about a HACK. Talk about writing a driver in 2 128 word (12 bit) pages. Talk about *SLOWWWWWWWWWWWWW*. But it was interesting. (Actually the tape came from a ?system? that was a PDP-8e with only a TU-10, he was copying some FORTRAN code from our PDP-12). -- I am, y'r obd't s'vt Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology) uucp: ...{ hao, trw-unix, sdcsvax!bmcg}!cepu!scw ARPA: cepu!scw@ucla-locus location: N 34 06'37" W 118 25'43"