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meh. memory address is the ID
by iraqmtpizza 2y ago
meh. memory address is the ID
- L-four 2y agoAirline booking numbers used to just be the sector number of your booking record on the mainframes HDD.
- switch007 2y agoMy jaw just hit the floor. What a fascinating fact!
- rrr_oh_man 2y agoThat’s why they were constantly recycled?
- mauriciolange 2y agosource?
- devsda 2y agoThis is such a simple scheme. I wonder how they dealt with common storage issues like backups and disks having bad sectors.
- giantrobot 2y agoThey're likely record based formatting rather than file based. At the high level the code is just asking for a record number from a data set. The data set is managed including redundancy/ECC by the hardware of that storage device.