>>> 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).
>

This sounds like a "been there, done that".

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