> - IBM nomenclature really is broken. They call disks DASD devices, and
> they call their hash table a page table, and they just confuse
> themselves and everybody else for no good reason.
Actually, no on DASD. DASD = "Direct Access Storage Device" and while disk
is the most common implementation of that, it is not the only. Like
Windows is the most common implementation of "operating system," but not
the only one, thankfully.
Think drum, solid state storage, optical, etc... all DASD.
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