Johannes Meixner wrote:

> Out ouf curiosity:
> 
> Does someone know the reason behind why IBM introduced the
> unexpected factor 3 via 48 KiB required grain on DASD?
> 
> Not that I am actually surprised what IBM introduces, cf.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31-bit

It was important to distinguish between 24bit and 31bit :-)  I grew up
with working in 24 and 31bit mode. 

48Kb is the size of an IBM 3390 track.  Dunno about the factor 3. 



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