Re:Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms
by criddell on Friday March 03, 2017 @07:44AM
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> This led to a great little segue about physical disk structure, tracks, sectors and clusters.
These days, those are abstractions as well. That's basically the API that the mass storage controller presents to the OS. I'm not sure you could explain a hard drive to a lay person anymore. Most of the time, I'm kind of surprised that they work at all.
These days, those are abstractions as well. That's basically the API that the mass storage controller presents to the OS. I'm not sure you could explain a hard drive to a lay person anymore. Most of the time, I'm kind of surprised that they work at all.