[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Bob Eager]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:22:46 UTC, "Richard B. Gilbert" 
<rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Bob Eager wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:22:48 UTC, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
> > wrote:
> > 
> >> Note the percentage of fragmentation.  And, no, there are no de-frag
> >> programs for BSD Unix.  The question does come up from a windows weenie
> >> periodically in the BSD Newsgroups.
> > 
> > Remind me when DEC finally provided a defragmenter for VMS...! :-)
> 
> Did DEC EVER provide a defragmenter?

Exactly...

> There is at least one but AFAIK it's user written freeware.  I first 
> encountered it ca. 1985-1986.  Before that, I had to do a full backup 
> and restore of an RA81.  AIRC it took fourteen tapes and eight to ten 
> hours.  The before and after comparison of system performance was amazing.

I kept a spare RA81 and did image copies...
-- 
Bob Eager