On Jan 30, 2008 11:56 AM, Alan Bourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul McNett wrote: > > Weird that drive letters should exist at all, actually. > > > Well, it's largely due to the MS-DOS heritage of Windows, which was > there underneath up to Windows ME. Although not in the NT-based strand, > i.e. NT/2000/XP/Vista. But of course even they have to run all sorts of > legacy apps that need drive letters. Linux has the advantage of always > having had the mount points approach. Hell, even the Amiga did it that way!
No it never - the Amiga used drives, but was not restricted to 1 character: DF0: DH0: PC0: etc. Also you could refer to a volume by name, e.g. "dir Work:" -- Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
