[Info-vax] SET DEFAULT iterative logical name translation

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Tue Oct 26 09:41:20 EDT 2021


On 10/26/2021 2:17 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Monday, October 25, 2021 at 2:30:30 AM UTC+13, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> This was at the same time when your only had 640K of
>> memory.
> 
> Both limits are just as old. But 640K was fixed ... eventually ... slowly ... painfully.
> 
> Whereas Microsoft still seem to believe that 26 drive letters ought to be enough for anybody.

The English language decided on 26 letters.

The last Windows server version that required a unique drive letter per
disk was NT 4.0 Server (released 1996, end of support 2002/2004). All
newer Windows versions (2003, 2008, 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2, 2016, 2019
and 2022) supports volume mount points.

Arne





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