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Disks
z/TPF allows connectivity of up to 40,000 disks — each with up to 32K cylinders. z/TPF disk
systems are, like its memory, formatted to preallocate record sizes. If using the most efficient
of these (4K records), z/TPF can address up to about 1 petabyte of usable data.
1.9 z/TPF features
In the remainder of this chapter we focus on z/TPF, as it compares to prior versions of the
TPF Family of Products.
As the next generation of on-demand transaction processing, z/TPF has been developed on
the architecture of IBM TPF V4.1, which is currently in use around the world. z/TPF expanded
on this success as follows:
Quality of service: This includes preserving all the quality ...