A System Architect's View Of Optical Storage

John W. McIntosh; Kent Harness; Frederick Parham II

doi:10.1117/12.936096

10 November 1983 A System Architect's View Of Optical Storage

John W. McIntosh, Kent Harness, Frederick Parham II

Proceedings Volume 0421, Optical Disks Systems and Applications; (1983) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.936096
Event: 1983 Optical Mass Data Storage Conferences, 1983, Arlington, United States

Abstract

The design and the development of optical storage creates a significant impact on system architecture. Some of the highlights of optical storage include the following: both direct and sequential access are supported, large units of data are divided into bands that act as the unit of physical and logical data addressahility, and the user deals with logical records that can be of variable length, up to two megabytes. Ease of use is enhanced by the simplicity of data manipulation and access. Future consideratons will allow rapid retrieval of a platter from a library for subsequent automatic insertion of the cartridge into an optical storage unit.

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John W. McIntosh, Kent Harness, and Frederick Parham II "A System Architect's View Of Optical Storage", Proc. SPIE 0421, Optical Disks Systems and Applications, (10 November 1983); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.936096

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