[Info-vax] TK50 - this is annoying...

Bob Koehler koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org
Fri Oct 19 09:44:48 EDT 2012


In article <k5p9uo$d52$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> 
> If people actually thought about it... I mean, a PDP-11 could keep a 
> disk fed with data without missing blocks, and disk blocks pass by much 
> faster than tapes...

   ?

   We always had to resort to 9-track to keep up with data flows on a
   PDP-11 on a hard real-time system.  Are you telling me there were
   disks that fast?




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