Origin of "partition" in storage devices

[Jon Elson]

On 2/1/22 00:38, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 07:51:28PM -0500, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
> [...]
>> Yes, RT-11 is a somewhat unusual file system in that it doesn't just
>> support contiguous files -- it supports ONLY contiguous files. That makes
>> for a very small and very fast file system.

Well, the IBM 360 CKD disks had all files contiguous, too.

Jon