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: tapes as mass storage -(nf) Message-ID: <16221@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 17:24:16 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16221 Posted: Tue Jan 31 17:24:16 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 12:28:57 EST Lines: 13 From: Richard GuyThere were (still are?) storage devices/techniques slower than DECtapes. However, I can't recall hearing of anyone trying to run a multi-user timesharing system from cards or paper tape. (swapping??? demand paging??? random access files???) The original issue being addressed was the truth of rumours about people running UNIX, etc, on tape-only systems. richard ps Come to think of it, if one had a fancy enough card sorter/collater combined with a reader/punch, one could mimic a DECtape, modulo a few orders of magnitude with respect to time.