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And who needs more disk partitions than there are letters in the alphabet, anyways? Kids these days! Get Off of My Lawn!


640K FTW!


Oh come on, you're using a Win9x argument in 2010? :)


Uh, what do you think I'm arguing about? I'm drawing a parallel between a Microsoft oversight dating from the DOS days and the current oversight with port numbers.

But if you think I'm taking a position, please explain. (I'm reminded of Herman Melville reacting to various academic's analysis of symbolism in Moby Dick. Something to the effect that he didn't know that stuff was in there!) Unjustified projection of fictional intention is just as cheap as putting words into another's mouth.


FWIW: All Desktop/Server versions of Windows since Windows 2000 (except WinMe) support arbitrary directory-based mount points.


I was about to do this, actually, so I can have a 40GB "system" partition and put my "data" partition in "My Documents." But I still get the joy of seeing my "C:" drive in XP.




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