[geeks] Google announces Google Chrome OS

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Jul 8, 2009, at 18:24 , Phil Stracchino wrote:

> Mike Meredith wrote:
>> On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:41:03 -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>> Drive letters should have died at least ten years ago.  When a piece
>>
>> I'm not a fan of the whole "device:path" thing; I prefer the Unix  
>> way.
>> But if you are going to do that, at least do it right. After all  
>> there
>> are plenty of examples of 'drive letters' used in other operating
>> systems where they did the obvious thing - to allow variables.
>>
>> Wouldn't "$HOME:" be far better than "C:\Users\Mike" ?
>>
>> And shouldn't removable devices be labelled with the filesystem  
>> label ?
>> I label all removable devices with useful names ("MSTICK"), so why
>> doesn't it become "MSTICK:" under Windows ?
>
> Exactly.
>
> Label the filesystem/volume.  Let the OS worry about keeping track of
> where (physically and logically) it *IS*.

According to a Windows hacker I know, Windows only allows a single  
character for a device name, and I'm sure tons of apps and code  
libraries also make that assumption.

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