You're quite, Ron. It dates back to the days of SLEDs.
Rick
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Ron Hawkins wrote:
While it may be in the manual, I don't think this statement has been true
for several decades.
"Cylinder allocation (and therefore ROUND used with average block or
average
record) allows faster input/output of sequential data sets than does track
allocation."
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