On emulated DASD, I/O is almost always an entire track at a time.

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 3:25 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gerhard,
>
> Your arguments would be/are persuasive for a real, spinning DASD.  On
> an emulated one they are not.  What, for example, does 'track
> oriented' mean when the underlying architecture is FBA?  When the
> underlying architecture is random-access storage?
>
> John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
>
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