8 May
2017
8 May
'17
12:06 p.m.
From: Eric Smith
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 3:27 PM
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 3:02 PM, allison via cctech
<cctech at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
> In the PDP-10 realm not less than a handful
Tops10. ITC, more.
TOPS-10 doesn't have any filesystems for floppy
disks, though the KL10
front-end PDP-11/40 running RSX-20F does, and there are utilities to access
RSX and RT11 filesystems from TOPS-10.
Unsupported utilities.
Also, RSX-20F can only handle RX01 format. An RX02 drive can be used, but
not an RX02 format diskette.
AFAIK, the situation is the same for TOPS-20. I
don't have any idea
whether ITS, WAITS, Tenex, or the Compuserve Monitor ever had any different
floppy disk support.
TOPS-20 has no support for the front end RX01, nor does WAITS (which loads the
front end from DECtape, not floppy). I doubt that TENEX does, since it runs on
KA-10 and KI-10 processors (front ends are loaded from the main processor, not
from their own peripherals). ITS on the KL-10 is like
WAITS, AFAIK: DECtape,
not floppies. I can't speak to the CI$ monitor or
Tymcom-X.
Rich
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computers: Museum + Labs
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