[HECnet] RSX or RSTS

[John Forecast]

> On Mar 21, 2020, at 1:28 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> On 2020-03-21 18:22, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
>> Not on the 36 bit line, officially, anyway.  Tops-10 and Tops-20 had very different file system designs.
> 
> Ok, I admit. I totally ignored the 36-bitters here. :-)
> Exchanging data with those usually meant DECtape or floppies, since that's about the only media available on both with some level of compatibility...
> And then you might be talking to the front end, again, which brings us back to a PDP-11... :-)
> 
> Or, maybe the most obvious answer: magtape... Most DEC OSes supported ANSI magtapes.
> 

You can read/write RT11 format floppies on TOPS-10 using RTFLX. Unfortunately that only appears to support RX20s on a 2020.

  John.

>  Johnny
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