Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 9/27/83; site hplabsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hplabsc!faunt From: faunt@hplabsc.UUCP (Doug Faunt) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: YADS - Yet Another DECtape Story Message-ID: <1643@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 4-Feb-84 21:14:35 EST Article-I.D.: hplabsc.1643 Posted: Sat Feb 4 21:14:35 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 02:09:43 EST References: <16076@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 8 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.