Origin of "partition" in storage devices

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On Mon, 31 Jan 2022, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Jan 2022, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
>> I think the same type of problem happened with the really old FAT-12 to 
>> FAT-16 conversion.
>> Wasn't FAT-12 limited to something near 31 MB?
>
> 32 MebiBytes - 1
>

*chases Fred out of the house with a broom, screaming incoherently about 
SI units*

g.

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