© 1977 by British Computer Society
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Choice of block sizes for magnetic tape files
Department of Computation, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 88, Sackville Street, Manchester, UK
This paper examines the limitations of current methods employed in the choice of block sizes for magnetic tape files and develops a systematic approach for the calculation of optimum block sizes.
Received June 1975.
* Department of Computation, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 88, Sackville Street, Manchester, M60 1QD