>> I miss on the Acorn where you could just reference drives by the name of
>> the disk in the drive. In windows why can't I rename my external drive
>> "backup" and then write to "backup:\", it even comes up in the Win7
>> address bar in explorer...
>
> Because DOS.

Maybe that's because on DOS/Windows hard drives came along before 
multi-tasking? So you never got the situation where you were swapping 
floppies around to do several things at once in a multi-tasking 
environment. In that situation it's very useful for the OS/app to know 
which disc to use, rather than just which drive to use (otherwise you 
end up saving your word processor document to your printer driver disc 
and then can't find the latest version the next day).

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