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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: RLL: an intuitive (and somewhat silly) explanation
Message-ID: <664@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 16 May 88 20:10:39 GMT
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In article <11508@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
...Anyway, time for intuition.  None of the following is strictly
...accurate, but it should give you a good feel for how these things
...work.
...
...When you stick flux changes (data and/or clock) onto a disk surface,
...they tend to `wiggle around', somewhat like paper dots dropped from a
...bit too high up, in a slight breeze.  The better the drive, the more
...accurately the dots land where they were supposed to go, but they
...always wind up slightly out of place.

I like simple analogies, but ... "afraid of each other"???