19 Nov
2017
19 Nov
'17
11 p.m.
On Sun, 19 Nov 2017, Ron Natalie wrote:
You could actually mkfs a DECtape and mount it but the
system would
stall while rewinding to write the superblock.
The early Sun boxes used to hang when rewinding the cartridge tape,
because the controller didn't release the Multibus; the stingy Lionel
Singer used to sell the 3/50 as cheap servers...
And you haven't lived until just for fun you put a file system onto a
9-track tape and ran FSCK on it.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."