I built support under V6 all in user space. That would be in the early 1980s and I don’t recall it being very difficult. I suspect others did that as well. Have you tried looking in the USENIX tapes?
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 3, 2019, at 4:33 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> On 2/3/19 3:41 PM, Aaron Jackson wrote: >> 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. > > I was looking for a device driver and when I didn't find it I > looked at SPD's and release notes, No mention of the TU-58 at > all. And this just as I am about to build a real TU-58 emulator. > :-) > > bill >