seek on raw magtape

auerbachkarl%b.mfenet at lll-mfe.arpa auerbachkarl%b.mfenet at lll-mfe.arpa
Sat Jan 11 04:37:08 AEST 1986


Way back when, some folks at UCLA used DECtape for the Unix swap
device.  I heard that it actually ran!

(DECtape was a random-access tape unit that DEC once made for PDP-8
and PDP-11 machines.  The tape was pre-formatted, much like disk packs.)
 
    --karl--  (Karl Auerbach, Epilogue Technology Corp.)
              Auerbach#K%MFE at LLL-MFE.ARPA



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