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This is a great article and really illustrates just how hard Windows works to be backwards compatible. Lots of these (eg: the COM/LPT stuff) could be dropped a

This is a great article and really illustrates just how hard Windows works to be backwards compatible. Lots of these (eg: the COM/LPT stuff) could be dropped and wouldn't affect most people either way, but for those things depending on it, it would be a profoundly breaking change.

neerajsi 3y ago
Newest versions of Windows do let you use these names.
- c0nsumer 3y ago
  How new? 'echo foo > COM1' returns 'The system cannot find the file specified.' on Windows 11. (Machine doesn't have a COM1; if this wasn't being redirected to the port, it'd have gone into a file of that name.)
  - ChrisSD 3y ago
    You can now use ".\COM1" or "COM1.txt" but not a bar COM1.
    - c0nsumer 3y ago
      Thanks! That's good to know.