Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)

[Dave Howe]

Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
I was thinking more of the rumor that Longhorn's filesystem would
start at '/', removing the 'X:' and the concept of separate drives
(like unix has done for decades :) ).  When I first saw this
discussed, the consensus was that it would break any application that
expected to use 'X:\PATH'-style filenames or chdrive() (or whatever
that lib call to change the default drive is).  Someone suggested
that MS might ship an emulator to handle translation (at some
non-trivial cost in performance, else no one would have an incentive
to refactor) until the vendors could rewrite their apps to use the
new native filesystem.
The more likely solution though is that longhorn will *default* to a \ 
rooted file system for fixed drives, rather than the current situation 
where it defaults to a set of drive letters.