In <[email protected]>, on 04/26/2011
at 08:00 PM, Ken Brick <[email protected]> said:
>I thought, but this might be a senior moment, that OLTEP had had its
> day when the new tape drives (3480) that imitated DASD at the
>command level come out.
WTF? Are you referring to the (no longer) new positioning? Search time
could be rather long, so I wouldn't consider a cartridge to be very
useful as a DASD medium.
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