[Simh] Way out idea for simh

[Ken Cornetet]

Again, you don't need OS support for foreign file systems, you just need to be able to read the disk blocks in a raw mode.

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From: Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Rich Alderson
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 2:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [Simh] Way out idea for simh

> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 17:04:18 +0000
> From: skyvis at sky-visions.com

> For example the B5500 does not have the concept of a mountable pack.
> Drives could be attached, but they were a permanent attachment. For 
> the Ibm 7000 line, most did not support disk. The disk drive that was 
> supported by many of the machines was a large box that you could not 
> put drives into (IBM 1301/2301). Also these machines all worked in BCD
> (6 bit), not Ascii.

> I am also not sure when TOPS10 got support for mounting foreign file 
> systems. I don't believe that 6.03 or 5.03 support this idea.

As of 7.05 (the very last maintenance release, from 1990) it still hadn't.
I work with it daily.

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