Original sentence: After 1988, distribution of MTS components was done in an ad hoc fashion using network file transfer.In the earliest days of MTS, the standalone TSS DASDI and DUMP/RESTORE utilities rather than MTS itself were used to create the one-disk starter system.In the future, an IPLable version of MTS will be made available based upon the version of MTS that was in use at the University of Michigan in 1996 shortly before MTS was shut down.It consisted of 10,003 files on six 6250 bpi magnetic tapes.The contents of most the redistribution tapes seem to have been lost.To allow new sites to get started from scratch, two additional magnetic tapes were made available, an IPLable boot tape that contained a minimalist version of MTS plus the DASDI and DISKCOPY utilities that could be used to initialize and restore a one disk pack starter version of MTS from the second magnetic tape.Working with the D6.0 distribution materials, it is possible to create an IPLable version of MTS
Edited sentence: After 1988 distribution of MTS components was done in an ad hoc fashion using network file transfer.In the earliest days of MTS the standalone TSS DASDI and DUMP/RESTORE utilities rather than MTS itself were used to create the one disk starter system.In the future an IPLable version of MTS will be made available based upon the version of MTS that was in use at the University of Michigan in 1996 shortly before MTS was shutdown.It consisted of 10,003 files on six 6250 bpi magnetic tapes.Sadly the contents of most the redistribution tapes seem to have been lost.To allow new sites to get started from scratch two additional magnetic tapes were made available, an IPLable boot tape that contained a minimalist version of MTS plus the DASDI and DISKCOPY utilities that could be used to initialize and restore a one disk pack starter version of MTS from the second magnetic tape.Working with the D6.0 distribution materials it is possible to create an IPLable version of MTS