[Simh] RT-11 Storage Strategy

[Ethan Dicks]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Timothe Litt <litt at ieee.org> wrote:
>> Still, the amazing part is that RT on DECtape actually works.  It's the only DEC OS I know of for which that is true.
> I'm pretty sure OS/8 (or one of the family members) also ran on DECtape.

Yep.  I have a PDP-8/e with TD8E and TU56.  It boots and runs, but is
as slow as you might think it is.  Lots of tape whirring,
shoe-shining, then a dot prompt.  Fortunately, once you are inside
BASIC, for example, there's no tape motion until you go to load or
save.  FORTRAN compiles are verrrry slow.

-ethan