XPost: aus.computers, alt.os.linux.debian   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:18:19 -0400, Alan K. wrote:   
      
   > They could even do AA AB AC AD etc.    drive AC:\home ?   
      
   The stupid thing is, Windows/MS-DOS copied this feature from CP/M which   
   copied it from DEC systems which had multicharacter device names.   
      
   Of course, Windows/MS-DOS also copied multicharacter “reserved” file names   
   for non-disk devices from CP/M. And then compounded the stupidity by   
   carrying forward their reserved status into path names with hierarchical   
   directories.   
      
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