[TUHS] Origin of the name 'strategy'

[Erik E. Fair]

>From: Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com>
>Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 16:28:42 -0500
>
>I always thought it had to do with computing the optimal strategy for
>writing blocks to the disc device....  I wonder where I got that impression
>from.  Perhaps reading Bach?

Perhaps from reading the strategy routines of disk device drivers? That's where disksort() routine to perform HDA seek minimization via elevator sort is called. Still true in NetBSD today, though some of the routine names have changed. That would seem worth of being called a "strategy".

	Erik Fair