On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:50:16 -0500, Eric Bielefeld <eric- [email protected]> wrote:
>... It just seems >like IBM could get away from the track and cylinder stuff, which >artificially restricts the amount of storage you use. If you use short >blocksizes, or long ones that just go over 1/2 track, you waste an >awfull lot of space. ... >... it still makes things a lot more complicated than it should be. I think that logic may not apply. It all depends on how the emulation works. The "wasted" track space may not take any space on the real hardware. We may be protected from our old stupidity (but I'm sure there is lots of new stupidity to make up for that). It's still complicated. Now you have to know which old guideleines still hold, which can be discarded, and what new guidelines are needed. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
