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A distinction is made among low, high, very high and ultra high performance optical disk memory technologies. Comparisons are drawn between present storage devices and optical memories which identify the unique system characteristics of the latter. The theme of this paper is how these unique features can impact automation of information storage and retrieval systems. Topics/areas discussed include (1) data bases such as engineering drawings and personnel files containing text, graphics and/or grey-scale imagery, (2) file/record sizes, (3) system architectures and (4) system modeling for purposes such as queuing analysis.
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Bessette, O.E. (1984). Application of Optical Disk Data Storage in Information Systems. In: Wang, P.CC. (eds) Advances in Engineering Data Handling. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2817-9_20
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