Comment by toolslive Comment by toolslive 2 days ago 1 reply Copy Link View on Hacker News There's special place in hell for the inventor of drive names. IIRC, it's something that was nicked from CP/M.
Copy Link rwmj 2 days ago Collapse Comment - Tim Patterson certainly copied it from CP/M and may not have been aware of anything predating it, but according to Wikipedia drive letters have quite a long history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment Reply View | 0 replies
Tim Patterson certainly copied it from CP/M and may not have been aware of anything predating it, but according to Wikipedia drive letters have quite a long history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment