1 month ago
Milo Vermeulen : Oldskooler Ramblings - The diskette that blew Trixter’s mind [via]
deusx : The diskette that blew Trixter’s mind « Oldskooler Ramblings - "The manual for Mental Blocks claims that, for both C64 and IBM, you put the diskette in label-side up. I thought that had to be a typo, since every single mixed C64/IBM or Apple/IBM diskette I have ever seen is a “flippy” disk where one side is
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9 month ago
deusx : Tom White: "Disks have become tapes" - "In essence MapReduce works by repeatedly sorting and merging data that is streamed to and from disk at the transfer rate of the disk. Contrast this to accessing data from a relational database that operates at the seek rate of the disk"
Matthew M. Boedicker : thinking of disks as a sequential device rather than a random access device - (via reddit) [via]
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