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

[Dave Froble]

On 8/8/2018 7:12 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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
>

Yeah, I should have mentioned i was off topic.