[Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Fri Jan 26 09:59:38 EST 2018


That sounds right.  Incidentally, I'm not sure how well known this is, but RSTS (with the "new BACKUP" introduced in V9.0) uses the VMS backup set format.  That means you can use backup sets to interchange between the two, with some care because of the differences in file naming.

	paul

> On Jan 25, 2018, at 9:11 PM, Larry Baker <baker at usgs.gov> wrote:
> 
> As far as I am aware, there is no limit, up to the amount of disk space available.  Backup Save Sets are just RMS sequential files with fixed record lengths (on disk, usually 32768 bytes, on tape, I think the default is 4096, except 2048 for Interchange format).
> 
> Larry Baker
> US Geological Survey
> 650-329-5608
> baker at usgs.gov



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