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... Bulk Storage Regardless of the size of a machine's main memory , it seems that applications always require still more data storage area . Thus , most machines are provided with a bulk storage system ( also called secondary memory ) in ...
... Bulk Storage Regardless of the size of a machine's main memory , it seems that applications always require still more data storage area . Thus , most machines are provided with a bulk storage system ( also called secondary memory ) in ...
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... bulk storage devices often proves to be the bottleneck in computer systems . It is not surprising that an attempt is made to minimize the number of times such a device is accessed . One technique for this is to transfer large ...
... bulk storage devices often proves to be the bottleneck in computer systems . It is not surprising that an attempt is made to minimize the number of times such a device is accessed . One technique for this is to transfer large ...
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... bulk storage along with the file . To access a record , we first retrieve the index into main memory where we search through it for the desired entry before returning to bulk storage for the record in question . Because the index must ...
... bulk storage along with the file . To access a record , we first retrieve the index into main memory where we search through it for the desired entry before returning to bulk storage for the record in question . Because the index must ...
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