heleth that prediction has been made before; they keep finding
ways to make disks smaller, faster and less expensive. I expect to see
disks disappear in my lifetime, but IMHO we are not yet in a position
to estimate the timetable.
>Curiously, interleave was/is? used in ram storage devices too, agai
this multitasking, IMO :-) .
People, it seems to me, interleave or multitask much better in their daily
lives than they do when they turn to writing programs, which they single
thread chiefly (a) because languages like COBOL are resolutely synchronous
but also (b) because multitasking/multithre
In a message dated 10/18/2005 8:59:24 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
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>ISTR that Hasp used various "interleave" factors to write logical
>blocks 1,2,3 et cetera as physical blocks 1,3,5.. or 1,4,7.. so that
>in the time that it took to trave
ISTR that Hasp used various "interleave" factors to write logical
blocks 1,2,3 et cetera as physical blocks 1,3,5.. or 1,4,7.. so that
in the time that it took to traverse the intervening trackspace the
Problem Program (such an appropriate term) had the opportunity to
generate ano
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