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In the preceeding note I claimed that the CRAY disk transfer rate was less than
a millisecond per word.  Obviously it is - it's less than a millisecond per
sector, which is 512 words.  This 512 word block still corresponds to about
68,000 cpu cycles though, a lot of time any way you slice it!