The VAX is running

[Daniel Seagraves]

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?
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