[HECnet] Future problems?

John Wilson wilson at dbit.com
Fri Jul 15 18:51:10 PDT 2016


From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 01:09:24 +0200

>Interesting, as XXDP V2 have a format that appears to be pretty much the 
>same as RT-11. (Including FLX being able to read it, more or less.)

Hmm.  My experience (of reading XXDP V2 disks with my own code) disagrees.
And the RSX doc says that FLX supports DOS-11 disks/DECtapes (in addition
to DOS-11 magtapes which are *much* easier), which are very similar to
XXDP+ format (so maybe FLX has tweaks for the slight differences?).

John Wilson
D Bit


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