Seymour J. Metz asks: > I need a reference for Wikipedia as to whether the cells on a 3380 > only relate to error checking or whether they actually reflect the > physical layout of the track.
The "cells" are mentioned in United States Patent US4680653. That appears to be one of the patents that would apply to the emulation of a 3380 on a 3390, so there is presumably yet another patent (or two or three, if it's like most IBM technology patents) that would actually apply to the cellular allocation technique. -- WB ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
