TU-58 support wouldn't need to be in the kernel, it could easily run in user space. Perhaps someone had written an application in user-space to dump TU-58 tapes.
Aaron. Bill Gunshannon via cctalk writes: > Here's a question for someone who has been around long enough to > remember. > > Why did none of the available PDP-11 Unixes support the TU-58? > I have looked at Ultrix-11, V7M and BSD 2.11 (didn't try 2.9 > but I suspect if it isn't in 2.11 it wasn't in 2.9) and none > of them had support for the TU-58. Seems to me it would have > been a rather simple device to handle as it ran over a serial > line. > > bill -- Aaron Jackson - M6PIU http://aaronsplace.co.uk/