Yes, it is chopped liver.
1. It is as obsolete as MSS or drum.
2. It is NOT optical drive. It was called optical library, but the
drives were MO - MagnetoOptical. I've been using such drives in "ASCII
computers" and I remember that none of CD drives or DVD drives supported
MO media and none of MO drives supported CD or DVD media.
3. Note: MO is not writable CD or DVD. It's not even DVD RAM, although
the physical view of the plate would seem similar.
4. Obviously no current user of 3995 could insert a CD, DVD or ISO image
(how?) into the library.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 06.03.2025 o 17:27, Seymour J Metz pisze:
"Why didn't you wondering why none of the non-ASCII platform support
optical drive and its media?"
What is the 3995 Optical Library Dataserver, chopped liver?
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי
נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר
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W dniu 06.03.2025 o 16:49, Paul Gilmartin pisze:
On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 15:42:38 +0100, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:
FSVO "well known". It's about as well known as
ASCII, and on a similar family of platforms.
It is really worthless to discuss it. ISO format is supported by all
contemporary CD/DVD burner software and directly by MS Windows system
which seems to be quite popular in laptop and desktop computers. Also
Linux and MacOS do support it. So, yes - it is well known.
I was wondering what non-ASCII platforms support ISO format,,
or do all require an ASCII waystation?
Why didn't you wondering why none of the non-ASCII platform support
optical drive and its media?
BTW: what platforms do you mean?
I know very few: z/OS, z/VSE, z/VM, z/TPF and some really rare, usually
clones of IBM systems (Fujitsu, Hitachi, Siemens). Not sure about GECOS
and Unisys.
Personally I would not care about any of them excluding z/OS and z/VM.
However I strongly believe that any of the installations do have some
"waystation" aka PC computer in the shop.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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