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From: auerbach karl%b.mfenet@lll-mfe.arpa
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: seek on raw magtape
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Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 13:37:08 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 10 13:37:08 1986
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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@LLL-MFE.ARPA