[geeks] Google announces Google Chrome OS

[Phil Stracchino]

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*.


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