21 Mar
2020
21 Mar
'20
7:40 p.m.
On Mar 21, 2020, at 1:28 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt
at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2020-03-21 18:22, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
You can read/write RT11 format floppies on TOPS-10 using RTFLX. Unfortunately that only
appears to support RX20s on a 2020.
John.
Not on the 36 bit line, officially, anyway.
Tops-10 and Tops-20 had very different file system designs.
Ok, I admit. I totally ignored the 36-bitters here. :-)
Exchanging data with those usually meant DECtape or floppies, since that's about the
only media available on both with some level of compatibility...
And then you might be talking to the front end, again, which brings us back to a
PDP-11... :-)
Or, maybe the most obvious answer: magtape... Most DEC OSes supported ANSI magtapes.
Johnny
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