[Info-vax] SET DEFAULT iterative logical name translation

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/26/2021 10:07 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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?

I don't even think it is a real problem today.

For systems with lots of disk space I believe that the normal model
is that the storage system present a few huge logical disks to
the system and the storage system translate that to a large number
of physical drives using RAID 10 or RAID 6 or whatever.

Arne