> I was just thinking back to the evolution of the PC, which also > started out supporting just one of everything (e.g., the C: drive) and > ended up with multiple disks, multiple partitions on a disk, multiple > pointing devices, multiple screens, etc., etc.
Actually, the PC started out supporting multiple drives -- A, B, C, D, etc. I believe this mimicked CP/M. It was a classical M$ism to place the hard drive at "C" (so that the location of the two presumed floppies wouldn't change) and assume there was only one, but one would expect a Linux-derived box to be more general. On Sep 11, 6:31 am, Doug Gordon <gordo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I get your point, and unfortunately I once worked for such an > organization! :-) > > I was just thinking back to the evolution of the PC, which also > started out supporting just one of everything (e.g., the C: drive) and > ended up with multiple disks, multiple partitions on a disk, multiple > pointing devices, multiple screens, etc., etc. > > But in this case, even though you're understandably trying to keep > things simple, I tend to think of my Android phone as a replacement > for my Palm PDA, which did have OS support for the resource in > question: multiple removable storage cards (however, I don't think > that any such device was ever produced). > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Doug Gordon <gordo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A marketing or engineering department that can't accept limitations is an > > organization that will never ship a product. > > > -- > > Dianne Hackborn > > Android framework engineer > > hack...@android.com > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > > answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
