Hello, * On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:38:56PM +0100 Gábor Lénárt wrote: > Well, maybe. It was my idea that this is from CP/M as many stupidity came > from there Yes. MS-DOS 1.0 tried to mimic as much of CP/M as possible. > (ok, sorry for the word, not so stupid for CP/M, just for current > technology it is), like driver letters, it's quite laughable that Windows > etc systems have it even know, You may laugh, but: On Windows NT (3.1, the first one, and up), the drive letters were always just symbolic links. NT always had a one-root structure like Unices; however, the NT subsystem (back then) exposed the symbolic links mainly. > but no wonder, DOS seems to be a mixture of > CP/M (like: PSP, FCB based file functions, etc), and UNIX (directories, > file handle based functions, named device nodes) "inventions". The Unix file handling came with MS-DOS 2.0. > As far as I know (I am not so a windows user) MS admitted finally that drive > letters should be killed, and NTFS already knows about "reparse points" > which is similar to the UNIX "mount" solution. "reparse points" are more like what you would do with mod_rewrite on apache. ;) Regards, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://opencbm.sf.net/ http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2011-11-28 18:00:09
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