However, such a system had few advantages over twistor, especially as it did not allow random access.
However, the , contrary to its name, does not support random access.
Discs offer random access, too: you can jump instantly to any spot.
Mail and news spools usually allow random access to individual messages.
It can be done with linked list data structures, whereas the one based on partition requires random access.
Fast random access to any part of the encoded data.
The codex or book of medieval times allowed random access to specific passages.
You can always process it later into a more useful form for random access.
Since a magnetic drum does not support random access, some time is lost waiting for an instruction or piece of data become available.
The combination with videodisc players is particularly interesting because of the ways random access can be exploited.
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