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It’s a legacy from the IBM CP/CMS days. First floppy drive was A, Second B, and when internal Hard Drives came along they defaulted to C to be compatible with
by kemotep 4y ago
It’s a legacy from the IBM CP/CMS days.
First floppy drive was A, Second B, and when internal Hard Drives came along they defaulted to C to be compatible with computers that had at least 2 disk drives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment?wprov=...
- YakBizzarro 4y agoIf I rembember correctly, you could use the B drive even if you have just one unit. It was useful to copy files from one disk to another, even if you didn't had an hard drive as temporary storage