← Back to context Comment by p_ing 17 hours ago What lineage of OS predates both DOS and VMS? :-) 2 comments p_ing Reply runjake 16 hours ago As the popular phrase goes: "It's legacy, all the way down". What matters is what's left of those legacies in current revs.In both cases: "Quite a bit", but I wish the base Windows OS would evolve away from legacy as much as macOS has. Start with eliminating drive letters. p_ing 15 hours ago > Start with eliminating drive letters.Drive letters are there for the presentation layer and of course backwards compat. Windows refers to them using device paths internally. You can too, if you wish.https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/file-pa...
runjake 16 hours ago As the popular phrase goes: "It's legacy, all the way down". What matters is what's left of those legacies in current revs.In both cases: "Quite a bit", but I wish the base Windows OS would evolve away from legacy as much as macOS has. Start with eliminating drive letters. p_ing 15 hours ago > Start with eliminating drive letters.Drive letters are there for the presentation layer and of course backwards compat. Windows refers to them using device paths internally. You can too, if you wish.https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/file-pa...
p_ing 15 hours ago > Start with eliminating drive letters.Drive letters are there for the presentation layer and of course backwards compat. Windows refers to them using device paths internally. You can too, if you wish.https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/file-pa...
As the popular phrase goes: "It's legacy, all the way down". What matters is what's left of those legacies in current revs.
In both cases: "Quite a bit", but I wish the base Windows OS would evolve away from legacy as much as macOS has. Start with eliminating drive letters.
> Start with eliminating drive letters.
Drive letters are there for the presentation layer and of course backwards compat. Windows refers to them using device paths internally. You can too, if you wish.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/file-pa...