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From: faunt@hplabsc.UUCP (Doug Faunt)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: YADS - Yet Another DECtape Story
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Date: Sat, 4-Feb-84 21:14:35 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  4 21:14:35 1984
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After we tried a papaer tape OS with a big spool of paper tape,
on our 11/20 sn 156,, we ran DOS11 on DECtape for a while.
RT was designed to be simple and not access the "disc" much.
DOS wasn't.  It read the directory every time it accessed a new file.
Watching DECtapes spin gets boring rapidly.

How many people have used the LINC-tape OS on a Nova, (or Rolm)?
That was hell.