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Authors:
Linda Null ,julia Lobur
Chapter:
Input Output And Storage Systems
Exercise:
Exercises
Question:11 | ISBN:9780763704445 | Edition: 3

Question

11. Why do you think the term random access device is something of a misnomer for disk drives?

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Although the memory addressing in the disk are 'random', the process of getting data from the disk is not random. So it's a bit of a misnomer because the access of the device is not random.

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