The files on the EWIRDB are each in the form of a
fixed-length record of 130 bytes each.
The main loop of the constant-activity program (lines 60-200) writes and then reads a
fixed-length record and displays the cumulative mean and standard deviation of the times between transactions.
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Data processing systems seem to have followed the same rule in perpetuating the Proccrustean bed of the "unit record." Virtually all commercial applications in the 1960's were based on files of
fixed-length records of multiple fields, which were selected and merged.
Fixed-format, fixed-field,
fixed-length records are exploited by database management systems that store and locate data.