Also the fact that Windows is still restricted to just 26 lettered devices and you cannot change the name of them. On the Amiga you didn't have to called the HD DH0:, you could just as easily call it GC0: if you so wished.
Some might argue that you won't ever need 26 devices at any one time. However consider if you had 4 drives in your system, each with a couple of partitions. That instantly uses up 8 of them. Then A and B are reserved for floppy drives so are lost. And if you connected a multi card ready you could lose up to another 4. That is 14 of the 26 already used up leaving just 12. You can then map some network drives that use up even more letters, and what about plugging an MP3 player, USB stick, camera or external HDD in. Each using letters up. I could easily use them all up if I tried.
The PC does still have some restrictions that date back to its origins and only still exist for legacy compatibility. Linux doesn't use such restrictions on device naming, so why can't Windows be updated for a better system?





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