The VAX is running

[Ethan Dicks]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Daniel Seagraves
<dseagrav at lunar-tokyo.net> wrote:
> Magtape has blocks.
>
> On Apr 4, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Richard wrote:
>> In article <f4eb766f0904031640g7c90507eo92411f16365021e1 at mail.gmail.com>,
>>    Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>  writes:
>>
>>> Back in the day, we used to move copies around on magtape, bypassing
>>> all sorts of stream-of-bytes issues.  Today, of course, most things
>>> expect streams of bytes, so that's how most things are presented.
>>
>> How does magtape avoid the stream-of-bytes issue?

Right... one block, one RMS record.

On UNIX systems, tape blocks tend to be all one size.  Somewhat less so on VMS.

-ethan