[geeks] Google announces Google Chrome OS

[Dan Sikorski]

Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2009, at 14:33 , gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 02:21:14PM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Oh I guess I have to stop using NULL:, LPT1, and so on.
>
> Those are exceptions: I used to write software for DOS and Windows, 
> and using more than a single letter for anything else never worked.
>
> If it's different now, why does no one use it?
>
>
You can also mount a filesystem on an empty NTFS folder.  For example, i 
could mount a partition on windows as c:\users or c:\users\newuser or 
whatever.  Just set it up in disk manager, it's easy, just not too 
commonly used.

    -Dan Sikorski