> I keep hoping that an IBM 650 programmer will stop by and explain how the=
y
> dealt with latency on a computer with drum memory...

I believe they had a pretty cunning compiler that would order the instructi=
ons on the drum so that as one instruction was completing the next was just=
 coming up to the read head. It certainly boggles my mind how they did this=
..

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