> On Jan 29, 2018, at 4:06 PM, David Bridgham via cctalk
> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> For those of you who are following along with our QSIC project, today we
> booted v6 Unix successfully for the first time. We'd first tried this a
> week or two back but discovered that Unix does use partial block reads
> and writes after all and I hadn't implemented those yet.
FWIW, so does RT11, and in the case of writes, it requires the rest of the
block to be zero-filled. Not everything depends on this, but some parts do; I
think Fortran is one.
I remember this because I had to handle it in the driver for the RC11, since it
has a 64 byte blocksize.
paul
