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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-08-07 22:23, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 8/7/2018 3:40 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2018-08-07 13:17, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 08/06/2018 08:58 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>> Basic always worked well with magtape.
>>
>> Depends on the BASIC, of course. ;-)
> 
> Well, this is c.o.v, so how many Basics might we be talking about?
> 
> Basic+, BP2, VAX Basic, and descendents, all seemed to allow working 
> with tapes.

I can sortof concur, but the post you replied to was already coming from 
a discussion on ioctl() which already placed us outside that domain.

   Johnny

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