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diff --git a/sag-0.6.1-www/Invisible/sag-0.6/node33.html b/sag-0.6.1-www/Invisible/sag-0.6/node33.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8ada116 --- /dev/null +++ b/sag-0.6.1-www/Invisible/sag-0.6/node33.html @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> +<!--Converted with LaTeX2HTML 96.1-h (September 30, 1996) by Nikos Drakos (nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk), CBLU, University of Leeds --> +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<TITLE>Tapes</TITLE> +<META NAME="description" CONTENT="Tapes"> +<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="sag"> +<META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> +<META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> +<LINK REL=STYLESHEET HREF="sag.css"> +</HEAD> +<BODY LANG="EN" > + <A NAME="tex2html728" HREF="node34.html"><IMG WIDTH=37 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="next" SRC="./next_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html726" HREF="node28.html"><IMG WIDTH=26 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="up" SRC="./up_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html720" HREF="node32.html"><IMG WIDTH=63 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="previous" SRC="./previous_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html730" HREF="node1.html"><IMG WIDTH=65 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="contents" SRC="./contents_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html731" HREF="node114.html"><IMG WIDTH=43 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="index" SRC="./index_motif.gif"></A> <BR> +<B> Next:</B> <A NAME="tex2html729" HREF="node34.html">Formatting</A> +<B>Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html727" HREF="node28.html">Using Disks and Other </A> +<B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html721" HREF="node32.html">CD-ROM's</A> +<BR> <P> +<H1><A NAME="SECTION00550000000000000000">Tapes</A></H1> +<P> + A tape drive uses a tape, similar<A NAME="tex2html15" HREF="footnode.html#1070"><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="gif" SRC="./foot_motif.gif"></A> to cassettes used for music. A tape is + serial in nature, which means that in order to get to any given + part of it, you first have to go through all the parts in between. + A disk can be accessed randomly, i.e., you can jump directly + to any place on the disk. The serial access of tapes makes them + slow. +<P> + On the other hand, tapes are relatively cheap to make, + since they do not need to be fast. They can also easily be made + quite long, and can therefore contain a large amount of data. + This makes tapes very suitable for things like archiving and + backups, which do not require large speeds, but benefit from + low costs and large storage capacities. +<P> +<BR> <HR> +<P><ADDRESS> +<I>Lars Wirzenius <BR> +Sat Nov 15 02:32:11 EET 1997</I> +</ADDRESS> +</BODY> +</HTML> |