5 Jul
2016
5 Jul
'16
1:56 a.m.
Yep, you could mount dectapes as filesystems, but you were not getting the greatest
performance when you had to wait for it to rewind to update the superblock.
On Jul 4, 2016, at 3:23 PM, Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jun 2016, John Cowan wrote:
Indeed, the PDP-8 system I cut my teeth on
swapped (infrequently) to
DECtape, which is essentially a floppy drive without random access.
DECtape was indeed random access; individual blocks could be addressed.
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