On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 01:49:38PM -0400, couryho...@aol.com wrote: >I would think the fixed head media swapped faster than the RK's >unlessthee fixed head media was really slow... Ed#
The DS/RS disks certainly weren't slow ... but an RK could still be fast enough to be useful. I'm thinking the hard part would be shoveling out enough space for a sector buffer, so that it could do word insert/extract operations and make the RFILE/WFILE calls still act more or less like the DMAR/DMAW instructions on the DF/RF. My understanding is that RKs as data disks used different calls (and weren't file-structured). John Wilson D Bit
