Again, you don't need OS support for foreign file systems, you just need to be able to read the disk blocks in a raw mode.
-----Original Message----- From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Rich Alderson Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 2:31 PM To: simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] Way out idea for simh > Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 17:04:18 +0000 > From: sky...@sky-visions.com > For example the B5500 does not have the concept of a mountable pack. > Drives could be attached, but they were a permanent attachment. For > the Ibm 7000 line, most did not support disk. The disk drive that was > supported by many of the machines was a large box that you could not > put drives into (IBM 1301/2301). Also these machines all worked in BCD > (6 bit), not Ascii. > I am also not sure when TOPS10 got support for mounting foreign file > systems. I don't believe that 6.03 or 5.03 support this idea. As of 7.05 (the very last maintenance release, from 1990) it still hadn't. I work with it daily. Rich _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh