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.
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.