[Info-vax] SET DEFAULT iterative logical name translation

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 10/26/21 9:41 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.
> 

And, as is usually the case when people look back on the way things
used to be they target one thing while missing all of the contributing
factors.  When there were only 26 drive letters (24 if you accept that
two were owned by floppies) how many physical drive could one actually
attach to a PC system?

bill