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Re:Could Bill Gates write code? by Luyt on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @08:25AM (#2628804)
This was also the reason why floppy disks had interleaving sectors; so that the CPU had some time to empty the read/write buffer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleave#Interleaving_in_disk...

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