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Name the Data Structure

Name: Anonymous 2014-04-11 21:07

What is the name of CDR encoding, Lisp Machines used to store cons-lists in array form? I guess it way used to store closures as arrays, at the same time allowing them to be accessed like cons-lists (for &rest arglists).

Name: Anonymous 2014-04-12 5:02

CDRs are encoded with an ``eight-to-fourteen modulation'' lookup table, to prevent extended repetition of zeros or ones from confusing the tracking laser.

At a higher level, the ISO 9660 filesystem is often used, although there is no reason you can't record a TAR archive directly.

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