Old algorithm textbooks often covered algorithms that did well on tape drives, since tape drives used to be a common storage type on almost all computers. Since memory on modern CPUs with data prefetching is starting to more and more resemble a tape drive, I was wondering if there used to be some "canonical" books/papers back in the day on algorithms operating on tape storage? I'd be very interested in checking out what was ideas were available back then.
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