[Info-vax] Assembly languages

[Dennis Boone]

 > That is obviously incorrect. Every disk used today is divided into 
 > blocks. So that is what a file on a disk is, in the end. And that is not 
 > the same as a string of bytes. The string of bytes abstraction is 
 > implemented on top of this.

Er, not a very convincing argument.  In that vein, every magnetic media
disk used today is a string of flux transitions.  The bytes and blocks
abstraction are implemented on top of this.

De