Random-access file storage adds a new degree of freedom over sequential storage on tape, but sequential accessibility may still be an important measure of performance of a random-access storage device. High sequential speed improves file loading and dumping, periodic file review, and the scanning involved in many file addressing methods.
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Werner Buchholz (1963) studied this question.
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