On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 23:24:10 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Macs don;t have obscure C drives, or D drives they ahve names and can
be
given any name just loke you'd name a child.

I have C and D, also known as System and User. That naming system
predates both Mac and Dos.

that's not a naming system.

I named them. That's been my naming system for most of the last 30
years.

no. you chose a drive letter based on convention and physical port.
that's *not* a name, nor can you have two of the same letter.

Wrong again. Windows named the drives C and D. I nmaed them System and
Userdisc.

not 30 years ago, you didn't, ...


Not then I didn't, not those names.

... but despite that, it's nowhere near as
flexible or as powerful as disk naming on a mac.

Even if you are correct, that's not the point at issue.

for example, a mac would ask for a floppy by name if it wasn't the one
in the drive. for servers, it would auto-mount them by name, requesting
login credentials if needed.

deviating from that convention causes all sorts of problems, especially
windows, which assumes c: is the boot drive.

Which is why I didn't change it.

so you didn't name it.

I never claimed I assigned the drive letters. I *named* the discs (or
more strictly the partitions). See above.

move the c: drive to another computer in an external enclosure. it's no
longer c:, as that other computer has its own c: drive. so much for the
name you supposedly gave it.

the mac was the first computer to let the user name disks anything they
wanted.

Not quite so. I was doing it with discs for my Cromemco back about ther
time the Apple][ was emerging. I seem to recall that Unix required
volume names almost from the outset.

you recall wrong, and cromemco was not a mass market computer anyway.

BSD Unix (1970s) certainly did require volume naming and my
recollection is that it inherited it from the AT&T version.

There was no mass market for computers at the time I had a Cromemco.
But Cromemco was the market leader. Unix and Cromix reqiured that a
disk be labeled (aka named) as part of the process of initialising.
Come to think of it, I suspect our PDP-11 was the same.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens