[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 08/06/2018 08:58 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 8/6/2018 11:21 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article <pk7pe6$c30$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Chris 
>> <xxx.syseng.yyy at gfsys.co.uk> writes:
>>>
>>> One of the reasons why unix and C became so popular in the early days
>>> is because the C library provides platform independent access to i/o,
>>> storage and a shed load of other functions. If I write a c program for
>>> any flavour of unix, or linux and don't try to be too clever, it will
>>> almost always compile and run on anything else.
>>
>>     You obvioulsy haven't done enough with ioctl().  Or am I being "too
>>     clever"?
>>
>>     Years ago, I found I had to get into ioctl() just to identify the 
>> contents
>>     of a magtape.
>>
> 
> Basic always worked well with magtape.
> 
> Worthless capability now.  What's a magtape?
> 

Still have lots of them.  And a SCSI 9-track to read them.
Oh yeah, and a bunch of TK50's as well. And a SCSI drive
for them, too.

bill