[Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?

Tim Shoppa tshoppa at gmail.com
Wed Jan 24 18:53:34 EST 2018


Many common tape image tools as of two decades use 32-bit integers to carry
offsets around and will be limited to 4Gigabyte tape image sizes.

I don't think this is a fundamental limit to the tape image formats used by
SIMH, just a common limitation of the tape image tools you might find from
20 years ago.

Tim.

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 5:02 PM, Zane Healy <healyzh at avanthar.com> wrote:

> What type/size of tapes does the VAX emulation support?  I was looking
> through the doc’s and it wasn’t obvious to me.  Is there a size limit?
>
> Thanks,
> Zane
>
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