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Subject: Re: fuzzy disks, Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About
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According to Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>:
>For some damn reason I thought of a fractal disk arm, an arm that had a 
>fractal structure, the disk rotates, but the fractal arm can read from 
>many places at once? Try not to flame me too much. ;^)

Dunno about fractal, but I have used head per track disks with a fixed arm
with many heads, and a disk with a crooked Y-shaped arm with two heads over
two tracks.  None of them could do more than one transfer at a time but I
think that was a limit of the electronics of the era, not a fundamental
issue.


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