[Info-vax] Assembly languages

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-04-11 17:00, Dennis Boone wrote:
>   > 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.

That is true. However, the interface that you have access to, in the 
software, is the blocks abstraction, and not the lower level thing, 
which is kept internal to the drive.

And either way, it's not a string of bytes.

   Johnny