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On Wednesday 24 November 2010 00:39:04 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 02:19 on Wednesday 24 November 2010, |
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> Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: |
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> > Just, if you happened to have 24 partitions, Windows would be ready |
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> > to label them all. Foresight? Windows? Must be a mirage. |
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> No it won't label them, it will give them some arbitrary name ordered |
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> in some arbitrary fashion and make that your de-facto access method. |
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Silly me. I meant "label" in the ordinary sense of offering a way of |
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referring to them, not adding a partition label. |
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> It's perfectly reasonable to predict the user would want to name a |
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> disk by any name they chose, and for the vendor to have made this |
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> possible right from the very beginning. But no, it worked for |
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> floppies so we'll just keep using for everything else even when it |
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> makes no sense at all... |
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Who knows what makes sense to a couple of college dropouts working all |
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hours in a garage? Hindsight is a wonderful thing - even when it has |
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640KB in its sights. |
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Rgds |
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Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23. |