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A problem only Windows has: multirooted filesystems, the infamous and awful "drive letters". When was the last time you swapped out a floppy? Can't remember mys
by bediger4000 2y ago
A problem only Windows has: multirooted filesystems, the infamous and awful "drive letters". When was the last time you swapped out a floppy? Can't remember myself, but we've still got drive letters.
- dehrmann 2y agoI can imagine youngins asking why the first drive is c:
- rezaprima 2y agowhen was the last time you unplugged your thumb drive?
- bediger4000 2y agoLast month, I guess. I still have and use thumb drives periodically, but I don't believe I can lay hands on a floppy of any size.
- pjmlp 2y agoOnly UNIX based OSes have a single hierarchical filesystem with mount points. Windows did not choose that approach only to be diferent, rather that is what everyone else outside Bell Labs was doing.
- euroderf 2y agoI'll chalk that up as a win for the New Jersey camp.
- pjmlp 2y agoCoupled with how to make ideas stick when free beer is available.
- bediger4000 2y agoNo. Thompson and Ritchie borrowed that from Multics, see section 2.2 of https://multicians.org/fjcc4.html https://multicians.org/fjcc4.html My guess would be Microsoft inherited device rooted filesystems from CP/M. They could have transitioned to single root filesystems with NT in the early 1990s.
- pjmlp 2y agoThere are plenty of other OSes since the 1950's, even if the idea already existed in Multics, and the large majority of those weren't into single file system camp. There are even those whose filesystem is based on a database model instead.
- RGamma 2y agoFWIW Windows supports mount points as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_volume_mount_point https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_volume_mount_point