22 Oct
2004
22 Oct
'04
10:02 a.m.
>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Dicks
<dickset(a)amanda.spole.gov> writes:
Ethan> On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 05:40:55PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> Interesting -- DOS format magtape. 6.3
filenames...
Ethan> That has more to do with the use of RADIX-50 to store
Ethan> filenames on PDP-11 disks than anything that came out of
Ethan> Redmond (RAD-50 stores 3 uppercase chars in 16 bits, so it
Ethan> takes three words to store names as 6.3)
Sure. What I was getting at is that the RSX native file naming was
9.3, not 6.3. 6.3 is TOPS10, DOS-11, RT11, RSTS; but RSX (all
flavors), IAS, and early VMS were all 9.3.
paul