On 2/27/2013 10:12 AM, Francois Labreque wrote:

>> 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...
>>
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> Because DOS.
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More like, "Because lazy". You can name drives under DOS, I think you 
could even do so with a floppy, but then your application has to 
"manually" check to make sure that the name is the same, since they a) 
never added a way to reference, as far as I know, the drive name as a 
means to write to it, and b) the OS doesn't check if the name changed on 
its own, as far as I am aware.

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