What's the origin of the use the word "logical" in computer systems

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7146942
by hnov • 12 years ago
1 0 12 years ago

Looking at the definition of the word "logical" it's hard to infer how it came to mean "virtualized" in certain contexts (logical volume, logical disk, logical adapter etc.). Where did the first use of it occur?

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