On 30 Jun 2007 at 9:57, Allison wrote:
This was common. The problem with rotating memory,
mercury delay,
magnostrictive delay and even shift registers is they are not random
access they are sequential access They all have a fixed delay and you
wait for what you want to "come around". Programmers had to program
around that if speed was required.
Hence, "plus one" addressing and SOAP on the 650.
Cheers,
Chuck