18 Apr
2000
18 Apr
'00
11:37 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 08:33:15AM -0700, John Lawson wrote:
Which is why we still refer to disk data structures
as
'cylinders'... on the surface of a drum, that's the geometric shape
they occupy.
Well the set of all the same-numbered tracks on a stack of hard drive
platters also form a cylinder... I thought that was the reason.
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