Gil, Worked with a math phd for a bunch of yrs and he preached records for allocations, not cyls or tracks. I guess everyone has an opinion...
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 17, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:59:13 -0500, Scott Ford wrote: >> >> Me too, never even thought of megabytes until the pc slam dunk artists came >> along, everyone I knew calculated their file size in tracks or cyls. As >> someone tod me new world order....lol >> > I would have expected that during technology transitions with a > mixture of DASD geometries in a shop, bytes or records would > have been the invariant metric of data set size, therefore the > most convenient. Perhaps it was just bigotry, evident in the > characterization in the paragraph above: "We're dinos; we don't > do megabytes!" > > But then there's volume capacity which, in megabytes, is not > invariant, even for a single volume of a single given model. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
