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Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z (www.ryanliptak.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [B] to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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[–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

As a 40-year Unix / Linux veteran, I will state the only thing there is to say about Windows drive letters: they're fucking stupid.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    They addressed a single-user OS at the time. Abstraction like this at the time worked. It wasn't like these machines were expected to be able to do more.

    Legacy stuff just kind of sucks.

    I'd say we probably have 86DOS to thank for it.

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    [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    Sort of. The kernel might handle them, but as the article then goes on to demonstrate, that doesn't matter much if most of the system software doesn't.

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    [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    So, will the AV software then scan that +:\ drive or not? 🤔

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