11 Sep
2012
11 Sep
'12
8:50 a.m.
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, Eric Smith wrote:
David Riley wrote:
...or maybe his technical editor screwed up while cutting the article down
to publication size?
I mean, he wrote Berkeley FFS, so I suppose he
should have some idea
that there were other sector sizes.
Berkeley was using the PDP-11 and VAX, both of which almost exclusively
used 512-byte sectors. It's possible that he didn't realize that this
was not universal practice on other contemporary machines. "All the
world's a VAX."