Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!guy@ucla-locus From: guy%ucla-locus@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Raw vs Block Tape I/O - (nf) Message-ID: <16062@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 11:07:19 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16062 Posted: Fri Jan 27 11:07:19 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Feb-84 13:52:07 EST Lines: 9 From: Richard GuyMy 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