On Wednesday 24 November 2010 00:39:04 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 02:19 on Wednesday 24 November 2010, > Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > > Just, if you happened to have 24 partitions, Windows would be ready > > to label them all. Foresight? Windows? Must be a mirage. > > No it won't label them, it will give them some arbitrary name ordered > in some arbitrary fashion and make that your de-facto access method.
Silly me. I meant "label" in the ordinary sense of offering a way of referring to them, not adding a partition label. > It's perfectly reasonable to predict the user would want to name a > disk by any name they chose, and for the vendor to have made this > possible right from the very beginning. But no, it worked for > floppies so we'll just keep using for everything else even when it > makes no sense at all... Who knows what makes sense to a couple of college dropouts working all hours in a garage? Hindsight is a wonderful thing - even when it has 640KB in its sights. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
