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Windows Longhorn and Drive Letters
I read that by default in Longhorn that drive letters are now hidden. Being brought up on computer technology during the DOS faze, I didn't really like this idea, but come to think of it, I think its not bad considering the number of flash and "hard disk" like things you can attach to a PC these days. Eg. MP3 players, digital cameras, stick readers, USB hard drives, firewire drives, it would be nice to just use volume names. What do you guys think?
By the way I think its good that PCs are finally starting to get rid of legacy components like the parallel port, serial port, PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors, etc. Legacy software components like drive letters is probably the next thing.
Last edited by mr_oh_so_ice; 06-27-2005 at 08:50 PM.
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8 Wheels Move The Soul
Drive letters make me feel happy. ARRRRRRGH.
Even Macs still use drive letters... Right?
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I don't think drive letters are used by Macs. At least not on Macs that I have used. They are labelled hard disk and floppy. Lol, I didn't know how to eject a Mac floppy, was looking around for the eject button on the computer, then I checked the help section, and it said to drag the floppy icon to the trash and then it popped my disk out. But I never referred to a Mac floppy as the "A" drive.
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Great White Shark
From an admin point of view, I don't like it. It would mean that we have to retrain users on local data managment because the terminology will change.
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NullPointerException
Using Linux & UNIX regularly, it's easy to adapt to a file structure without volume names. But traditional Windows doesn't lend itself easily to that concept because it grew up under DOS. In the long run, whether it's a mount point under /dev or some archiac letter to designate the volume, it would all work.
One headache could be support for legacy programs -- but if they're just 'hidden' and still exist, there's hope those of use who like drive letters can still use them.
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I don't really use multiple drive letters because every drive I have is either mounted on the root drive or in an array. Mounting volumes has been a part of Windows since NTFS came out in the early 90's.
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Crash Test Dummy
 Originally Posted by Ashpool
Even Macs still use drive letters... Right?
Macs have never used drive letters.
I don't mind drive letters going away so long as there's still a way for items to be addressable via scripts and such. I really don't even care if it's a drive letter, UNC path, or some type of mount point.
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I'm used to drive letters and prefer them. I guess I could stick with XP for a while longer to see how that all pans out.
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πr²
longhorns gonna be a system whore anyway...
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Originally Posted by rabidmoose171
longhorns gonna be a system whore anyway...
I wonder what it will offer that will make it worth getting?
I wonder if MS will shove it down our throats like they did with XP and drop support/patches/service packs for previous releases to force us to change?
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LOLWUT
Originally Posted by Bearded Kirklander
I wonder what it will offer that will make it worth getting?
I wonder if MS will shove it down our throats like they did with XP and drop support/patches/service packs for previous releases to force us to change?
That's pretty much how it goes.
Or they could switch to the OSX deployment platform. Force you to upgrade ever year for $130.
 Goodbye Windows 2000 Professional
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I really like Win 2k Pro. I think that "rollup" pack is out on Betanews. It sucks that they won't maintain 2k Pro.
I can understand the 9x argument, but XP is based on 2k Pro, right?
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LOLWUT
Originally Posted by Bearded Kirklander
I really like Win 2k Pro. I think that "rollup" pack is out on Betanews. It sucks that they won't maintain 2k Pro.
I can understand the 9x argument, but XP is based on 2k Pro, right?
Yeah. They killed 2kPro when 2003 server didn't support it. Really, 2kPro is already dead.
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I just don't get it. Maybe I'm being dense, but I honestly think that Win 2k Pro is the best of the Corporate End-User OS's. If you are a corporation, ya probably don't want MSN Messenger, the Video editor, extended Media Player, fancy themes, etc. Right?
I just don't get it.
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LOLWUT
Originally Posted by Bearded Kirklander
I just don't get it. Maybe I'm being dense, but I honestly think that Win 2k Pro is the best of the Corporate End-User OS's. If you are a corporation, ya probably don't want MSN Messenger, the Video editor, extended Media Player, fancy themes, etc. Right?
I just don't get it.
Yeah. I thought the same thing.
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