On 11/30/2015 02:09 PM, Mike Stein wrote:
Nothing wrong with what you wrote that I can see; excellent tutorial IMO.
The issue of "floppy interleave" pretty much went away when memory got cheap enough to buffer an entire track, provided the controller is capable of 1:1 interleave transfers.
An A-B comparison with interleaved vs. track buffering is quite enlightening.
I don't think that any modern hard drives use interleaved transfer, but I'm not certain.
Interleaving core accesses goes *way* back, as does using extra-wide multi-word-at-a-time transfers.
Did the IBM 650 interleave drum sectors? --Chuck
