Re: Record Length - Trivia

[John P Carr <jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>John P Carr wrote:
>> TRIVIA QUESTION;
>> If there were such a thing as an optimal record length what would it be ?

>The length of 1 disk sector...(this varies from cisc to risc machines)
>so every single read would result in a record with no overlap read for
>spanned records...
>Pat Barber

Something like that.  On the CISC machines,  John Sears once said it would
be 31 bytes because of something like you said.

John Carr



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