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[Shawn Gordon]

At 01:35 PM 5/11/2002, you wrote:
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>On Saturday May 11, 2002 08:02, Christian A Strømmen \[Number1/NumeroUno\]
>wrote:
> > The "problem" with drive letters is that it's become more or less
> > standard.. Been in a bios-setup lately? Most bios today use A: and B:
> > for floppies (and some even C: etc for disks)..
>
>If by standard you mean standard on only one architecture.

well let's see, there were a variety of architectures that used/use it like 
cp/m, all versions of dos like MS DOS/DR DOS/IBM DOS etc, windows (all 
versions), the various window managers that use to exist on dos, gem, 
amigados, os/2 to name a few.  Then you've got the unix/linux style which 
deals with partitions (which I find almost as annoying as drive letters) 
then you have the mini/mainframe model which treats disk as disk, add 20 
drives and you have more disk space in general without having to assign it 
here or there or having drive letters.  Indeed though,  everything is 
pretty driver letter centric these days and has been for a while.


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