> On Feb 21, 2018, at 3:25 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > From: Paul Koning > Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 6:41 AM > >> And while there is roughly-accurate simulation of DECtape in SIMH (presumably >> for TOPS-10 overlapped seek to work?) > > It's not for Tops-10. SimH only provides the KS-10 processor[1], so DECtape > is > not a possible peripheral.
Ok, then it could be for VMS, which also does this (via Andy's unsupported driver). I don't know of PDP-11 or other minicomputer systems that do DECtape overlapped seek. I suppose it could be for artistic verisimilitude... paul