In <[email protected]>, on 08/14/2014
at 10:27 AM, John Eells <[email protected]> said:
>If you have your old, yellowing DASD reference cards (everyone
>saves *those*, right?), then you can see that ~6K was a decent
>submultiple of the track lengths of the day for most devices.
>As a compromise it had its merits, since if I recall correctly
>(I am far too lazy to look it up, sorry), it had track
>utilization in the high 85% or better range on all the devices
>of the day.
Not if "the day" still included 2314.
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